The Covenant Sealed 1 UDB Then Yahweh said to Moses. "Come up to me on top of this mountain, you and Aaron and his sons Nadab and Abihu. Also take along seventy of the Israelite elders. While you are still some distance from the top of the mountain, there you may worship me. BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you are to worship at a distance.
2 UDB Moses, I will allow you alone to come near to me. The others must not come near, and the rest of the people must not come up the mountain." BSB BSB: Moses alone shall approach the LORD, but the others must not come near. And the people may not go up with him.”
5 UDB He also chose some young men. They burned sacrifices to Yahweh and they also sacrificed some cattle as offerings to promise friendship with him. BSB BSB: Then he sent out some young men of Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the LORD.
6 UDB Moses took half of the blood of the animals that were slaughtered and put it in bowls. The other half of the blood he threw against the altar. BSB BSB: Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splattered on the altar.
7 UDB Then he took the scroll on which he had written everything that Yahweh had commanded in the covenant that he had made, and he read it aloud while all the people were listening. Then all the people said, "We will do all that Yahweh has told us to do. We will obey everything." BSB BSB: Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”
8 UDB Then Moses took the blood that was in the bowls and threw it on the people. He said, "This is the blood that confirms the covenant that Yahweh has made with you when he gave you all these commands." BSB BSB: So Moses took the blood, splattered it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
9 UDB Then Moses along with Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and the seventy Israelite elders went up the mountain, BSB BSB: Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,
10 UDB and they saw God, the one whom the Israelite people worship. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of blue stones called sapphires. They were as clear as the sky is when there are no clouds. BSB BSB: and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
11 UDB God did not harm those Israelite elders because of their having seen him. They saw God, and they ate and drank together! BSB BSB: But God did not lay His hand on the nobles of Israel; they saw Him, and they ate and drank.
Moses on the Mountain 12 UDB Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on top of this mountain. While you are here, I will give you two stone slabs on which I have written all the laws that I have given to you to teach the people." BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”
13 UDB Then Moses went with his servant Joshua part of the way up the mountain where God was. BSB BSB: So Moses set out with Joshua his attendant and went up on the mountain of God.
14 UDB Now Moses had said to the elders, "Stay here with the other people until we return! Do not forget that Aaron and Hur will be with you, so if anyone has a dispute while I am gone, he can go to those two men." BSB BSB: And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. Aaron and Hur are here with you. Whoever has a dispute can go to them.”
15 UDB Then Moses went the rest of the way up the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. BSB BSB: When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it,
16 UDB The glory of Yahweh came down on the mountain and covered it for six days. On the seventh day, Yahweh called to Moses from the middle of the cloud. BSB BSB: and the glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered it, and on the seventh day the LORD called to Moses from within the cloud.
17 UDB When the Israelite people looked at the top of the mountain, the glory of Yahweh was like a big fire burning there. BSB BSB: And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.
18 UDB Moses went into the cloud on top of the mountain and was there for forty days and nights. BSB BSB: Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
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