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. 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. 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. 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.