13. No hand will touch him – but he will surely be stoned or shot through, whether a beast or a human being; he must not live.’ When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast they may go up on the mountain.”
14. Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.
15. He said to the people, “Be ready for the third day. Do not go near your wives.”
16. On the third day in the morning there was thunder and lightning and a dense cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud horn; all the people who were in the camp trembled.
17. Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain.
18. Now Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a great furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.
19. When the sound of the horn grew louder and louder, Moses was speaking and God was answering him with a voice.
20. The Lord came down on Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain, and the Lord summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
21. The Lord said to Moses, “Go down and solemnly warn the people, lest they force their way through to the Lord to look, and many of them perish.