1 He said to Moses, "Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance. 2 Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near. The people shall not go up with him."

3 Moses came and told the people all Yahweh’s words, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do."

4 Moses wrote all Yahweh’s words, then rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the base of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. 5 He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh. 6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7 He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "We will do all that Yahweh has said, and be obedient."

8 Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words."

9 Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up. 10 They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness. 11 He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.

12 Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them."

13 Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain. 14 He said to the elders, "Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them."

15 Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. 16 Yahweh’s glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the middle of the cloud. 17 The appearance of Yahweh’s glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel. 18 Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

1 耶和华对摩西说： "你要上到耶和华这里来。你自己、亚伦、拿答、亚比户和以色列长老中的七十人都要上来， 你们要远远下拜。

2 只有摩西一人可以走近耶和华， 他们却不可以亲近； 人民也不可和摩西一同上来。"

3 摩西下来， 把耶和华的一切话和一切典章都向人民讲述； 人民都同声回答， 说： "耶和华吩咐的一切话， 我们都必遵行。"

4 摩西把耶和华的一切话都记下了； 清早起来， 在山下筑了一座祭坛， 按着以色列十二支派立了十二根柱子。

5 又派了以色列人中的青年人去献燔祭， 又向耶和华杀牛献为平安祭。

6 摩西取了一半的血， 盛在盆中； 又取了另一半的血， 洒在祭坛上。

7 他又把约书拿过来， 念给人民听； 他们说： "耶和华吩咐的一切话， 我们都必遵行和听从。"

8 摩西就取了血来， 洒在人民的身上， 说： "看哪， 这是立约的血， 这约是耶和华按着这一切话与你们立的。"

9 随后， 摩西、亚伦、拿答、亚比户和以色列长老中的七十人都上了山。

10 他们看见了以色列的 神； 在 神的脚下有好像蓝宝石一样晶莹的铺路， 好像天色一般明亮。

11 他不伸手攻击以色列人中的显贵； 他们看见 神， 并且又吃又喝。

12 耶和华对摩西说： "你要上山到我这里来， 要住在这里； 我要把石版， 就是我所写的律法和诫命赐给你， 使你可以教导人民。"

13 于是， 摩西和他的侍从约书亚起来； 摩西就上到 神的山那里去了。

14 但摩西对长老说： "你们要在这里等候我们， 直到我们再回到你们那里来。看哪！ 这里有亚伦和户珥与你们在一起， 谁有诉讼的案件， 都可以到他们那里去。"

15 摩西上到山上， 有云彩把山遮盖着。

16 耶和华的荣耀停在西奈山上， 云彩把山遮盖了六天； 第七天， 耶和华从云彩中呼唤摩西。

17 耶和华荣耀的景象， 在以色列人眼前， 好像在山顶上出现烈火。

18 摩西进入云彩中， 上到山上去； 摩西在山上四十昼夜。