Exodus 24:1-8

The Covenant Confirmed

1 Then he said to Moses, "Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, u Nadab, and Abihu, and v seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar. 2 Moses w 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 all the words of the Lord and x all the rules. 1 And all the people answered with one voice and said, y "All the words that the Lord has spoken we will do." 4 And z Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. He rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve a 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 b Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he threw against the altar. 7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, x "All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient." 8 c And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, "Behold the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words."

  1. Cross References
    Exodus 28:1
    Then bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests - Aaron and Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
    Exodus 6:23
    Aaron took as his wife Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and the sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
  2. Cross References
    Numbers 11:16
    Then the Lord said to Moses, "Gather for me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.
  3. Cross References
    Exodus 24:13
    So Moses rose with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up into the mountain of God.
    Exodus 24:15
    Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
    Exodus 24:18
    Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
  4. Cross References
    Exodus 21:1
    Now these are the rules that you shall set before them.
  5. Cross References
    Exodus 19:8
    All the people answered together and said, "All that the Lord has spoken we will do." And Moses reported the words of the people to the Lord.
    Deuteronomy 5:27
    Go near and hear all that the Lord our God will say and speak to us all that the Lord our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.
  6. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 31:9
    Then Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel.
  7. Cross References
    Genesis 28:18
    So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it.
    Genesis 31:45
    So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.
    Exodus 23:24
    You shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them, nor do as they do, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces.
  8. Cross References
    Hebrews 9:18 - 19
    Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.
  9. Cross References
    Exodus 24:3
    Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words that the Lord has spoken we will do.
  10. Cross References
    Hebrews 9:19 - 20
    For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people.
    Hebrews 13:20
    Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant.
    1 Peter 1:2
    According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.
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