9. Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,
10. and they saw the God of Israel, and under His feet there was something like a paved work of sapphire stone as clear as the sky itself.
11. He did not lay His hand upon the nobles of the children of Israel. Also they saw God, and they ate and they drank.
12. The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to Me to the mountain and stay there, and I will give you the stone tablets with law and the commandments which I have written, so that you may teach them.”
13. Moses rose up with Joshua his attendant, and Moses went up to the mountain of God.
14. He said to the elders, “Wait for us in this place until we return to you. Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever has any matters of dispute let him come to them.”
15. Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
16. The glory of the Lord rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. And on the seventh day He called to Moses from the midst of the cloud.
17. Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain to the eyes of the children of Israel.