1 | In the
third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of
Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. |
2 | For they were departed from Rephidim,
and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and
there Israel camped before the mount. |
3 | And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of
the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the
children of Israel; |
4 | Ye
have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings,
and brought you unto myself. |
5
| Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant,
then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the
earth is mine: |
6 | And ye
shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words
which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. |
7 | And Moses came and called for the elders of the
people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded
him. |
8 | And all the people
answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And
Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD. |
9 | And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come
unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee,
and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the
LORD. |
10 | And the LORD
said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow,
and let them wash their clothes, |
11 | And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD
will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. |
12 | And thou shalt set bounds unto the
people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the
mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely
put to death: |
13 |
There
shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through;
whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long,
they shall come up to the mount.
Heb 12:20
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14 | And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and
sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. |
15 | And he said unto the people, Be ready
against the third day: come not at your wives. |
16 | And it came to pass on the third day in the morning,
that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and
the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the
camp trembled.
Heb 12:21
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17 | And
Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood
at the nether part of the mount. |
18 | And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD
descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a
furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Haggai 2:6
Heb 12:26
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19 | And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and
waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice. |
20 | And the LORD came down upon
mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top
of the mount; and Moses went up. |
21 | And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest
they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. |
22 | And let the priests also, which
come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon
them. |
23 | And Moses said
unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us,
saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it. |
24 | And the LORD said unto him, Away, get
thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the
priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break
forth upon them. |
25 | So
Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them. |