1. GOD SAID to Moses, Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu [Aaron's sons], and seventy of Israel's elders, and worship at a distance.
2. Moses alone shall come near the Lord; the others shall not come near, and neither shall the people come up with him.
3. Moses came and told the people all that the Lord had said and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, All that the Lord has spoken we will do.
4. Moses wrote all the words of the Lord. He rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve pillars representing Israel's twelve tribes.
5. And he sent young Israelite men, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord.
6. And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he dashed against the altar.
7. Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people; and they said, All that the Lord has said we will do, and we will be obedient.
8. And Moses took the [remaining half of the] blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words. [I Cor. 11:25; Heb. 8:6; 10:28, 29.]
9. Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up [the mountainside].