Chapter 19 | |
1 | In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. |
2 | For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount. |
4 | Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles" wings, and brought you unto myself. |
5 | Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: |
6 | And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. |
7 | And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him. |
8 | And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD. |
9 | And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD. |
10 | And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes, |
11 | And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. |
12 | And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death: |
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shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through;
whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long,
they shall come up to the mount.
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14 | And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. |
15 | And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives. |
16 | And it came to pass on the third day in the morning,
that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and
the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the
camp trembled.
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17 | And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. |
18 | And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD
descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a
furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
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19 | And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice. |
20 | And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up. |
21 | And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. |
22 | And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them. |
23 | And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it. |
24 | And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them. |
25 | So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them. |