¹AND he said to Moses, Come up to Yahvah, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and 70 of the elders of Israel; and you will worship far away. ²And Moses alone will come near Yahvah; but they will not draw near; nor will the people come up with him. ³And Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahvah and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, Everything which Yahvah has said we will do. ⁴And Moses wrote all the words of Yahvah, and rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and 12 pillars, according to the 12 tribes of Israel. ⁵And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to Yahvah. ⁶And Moses took 1/2 of the blood, and put it into basins; and 1/2 of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. ⁷And he took the book of the contract and read it in the presence of the people; and they said, All that Yahvah has said we will obey and do. ⁸And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people and said, This is the blood of the contract which Yahvah has made with you concerning all these words.

⁹Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and 70 of the elders of Israel went up; ¹⁰And they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, clear as the color of the sky. ¹¹And he did not harm the elders of the children of Israel; and they saw God, and ate and drank.

¹²And Yahvah said to Moses, Come up to me to the mountain, and present yourself there; and I will give you tablets of stone, and the laws and commandments which I have written; that you may teach them. ¹³And Moses rose up and his minister Joshua; and Moses went up to the mountain of God. ¹⁴And he said to the elders, You wait here for us until we return to you; and look, Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a problem, let him come to them. ¹⁵And Moses went up to the mountain, and a cloud covered the mountain. ¹⁶And the glory of Yahvah rested on mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for 6 days; and on the 7th day Yahvah called to Moses out of the middle of the cloud. ¹⁷And in the sight of all the children of Israel he saw the glory of Yahvah like a burning fire on the top of the mountain. ¹⁸And Moses went into the middle of the cloud and went up to the mountain; and Moses was in the mountain 40 days and 40 nights.