1 Then he said to Moses, “Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and ^gseventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar. 2 Moses alone shall come near to the Lord, but the others shall not come near, and the people shall not come up with him.”

3 Moses came and told the people ^hall the words of the Lord and ⁱall the rules.¹ And all the people answered with one voice and said, ^j“All the words that the Lord has spoken we will do.” 4 And Moses ^kwrote down all the words of the Lord. He rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and ^ltwelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5 And he sent young men of the people of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord. 6 And ^mMoses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he ⁿthrew against the altar. 7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.” 8 And Moses took the blood and ^othrew it on the people and said, “Behold the ^pblood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, 10 and they ^qsaw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of ^rsapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.