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And to Moses he said: Go up to the Lord, you and Aaron and Nadab and Abiud and seventy of the elders of Israel; and they shall worship the Lord from afar.
And Moses went in and recounted to the people all the words of God and the ordinances. And all the people answered with one voice, saying: All the words which the Lord has spoken we will do and we will hear.
And Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. And rising early in the morning, Moses built an altar below the mountain, and twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.
And he sent forth the young men of the sons of Israel, and they offered up whole burnt offerings and sacrificed a sacrifice of deliverance to God—young calves.
And Moses, taking the blood, sprinkled it over the people and said: Behold, the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you concerning all these words.
And they saw the place where the God of Israel stood; and what was under his feet was like a work of sapphire brick, and like the appearance of the firmament of heaven in its purity.
And the Lord said to Moses: Come up to me onto the mountain and be there; and I will give you the stone tablets, the law and the commandments which I have written, to give them law.
And to the elders they said: Stay quietly here until we return to you. And behold, Aaron and Or are with you; if a dispute befalls anyone, let them go to them.
And the glory of God came down upon Mount Sina, and the cloud covered it six days; and the Lord called Moses on the seventh day out of the midst of the cloud.