Exodus 24
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Now He said to Moses, "Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, a Nadab and Abihu, b and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar.
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"And Moses alone shall come near the LORD, but they shall not come near; nor shall the people go up with him."
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So Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, c "All the words which the LORD has said we will do."
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And Moses d wrote all the words of the LORD. And he rose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve e pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
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Then he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered f burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the LORD.
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And Moses g took half the blood and put it in basins, and half the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
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Then he h took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, "All that the LORD has said we will do, and be obedient."
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And Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, "This is i the blood of the covenant which the LORD has made with you according to all these words."
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Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,
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and they j saw the God of Israel. And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of k sapphire stone, and it was like the l very heavens in its clarity.
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But on the nobles of the children of Israel He m did not lay His hand. So n they saw God, and they o ate and drank.
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Then the LORD said to Moses, p "Come up to Me on the mountain and be there; and I will give you q tablets of stone, and the law and commandments which I have written, that you may teach them."
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So Moses arose with r his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up to the mountain of God.
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And he said to the elders, "Wait here for us until we come back to you. Indeed, Aaron and s Hur are with you. If any man has a difficulty, let him go to them."
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Then Moses went up into the mountain, and t a cloud covered the mountain.
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Now u the glory of the LORD rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
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The sight of the glory of the LORD was like v a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
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So Moses went into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mountain. And w Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
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Cross References
Exodus 6:23
Aaron took to himself Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Nahshon, as wife; and she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Exodus 28:1
Now take Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to Me as priest, Aaron and Aaron's sons: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Leviticus 10:1
Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered profane fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them.
Leviticus 10:2
So fire went out from the LORD and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
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Exodus 1:5
All those who were descendants of Jacob were seventy persons (for Joseph was in Egypt already ).
Numbers 11:16
So the LORD said to Moses: "Gather to Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the tabernacle of meeting, that they may stand there with you.
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Exodus 19:8
Then all the people answered together and said, "All that the LORD has spoken we will do." So Moses brought back the words of the people to the LORD.
Exodus 24:7
Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, "All that the LORD has said we will do, and be obedient.
Deuteronomy 5:27
'You go near and hear all that the LORD our God may say, and tell us all that the LORD our God says to you, and we will hear and do it.'
Galatians 3:19
What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator.
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Exodus 17:14
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in the book and recount it in the hearing of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
Exodus 34:27
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:9
So Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.
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Genesis 28:18
Then Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put at his head, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on top of it.
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Exodus 18:12
Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and other sacrifices to offer to God. And Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.
Exodus 20:24
An altar of earth you shall make for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record My name I will come to you, and I will bless you.
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Exodus 29:16
And you shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood and sprinkle it all around on the altar.
Exodus 29:20
Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood all around on the altar.
Hebrews 9:18
Therefore not even the first covenant was dedicated without blood.
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Cross References
Exodus 24:4
And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD. And he rose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
Hebrews 9:19
For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people.
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Cross References
Zechariah 9:11
As for you also, Because of the blood of your c...
Matthew 26:28
For this is My blood of the new covenant, which...
Mark 14:24
And He said to them, "This is My blood of the n...
Luke 22:20
Likewise He also took the cup after supper, say...
1 Corinthians 11:25
In the same manner He also took the cup after s...
Hebrews 9:19
For when Moses had spoken every precept to all ...
Hebrews 9:20
Saying, "This is the blood of the covenant whic...
Hebrews 13:20
Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lor...
1 Peter 1:2
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the...
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Cross References
Exodus 24:11
But on the nobles of the children of Israel He ...
Numbers 12:8
I speak with him face to face, Even plainly, an...
Isaiah 6:5
So I said: "Woe is me, for I am undone! Because...
John 1:18
No one has seen God at any time. The only begot...
John 6:46
Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He ...
1 John 4:12
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one...
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Ezekiel 1:26
And above the firmament over their heads was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like a sapphire stone; on the likeness of the throne was a likeness with the appearance of a man high above it.
Revelation 4:3
And He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald.
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Matthew 17:2
And He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.
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Exodus 19:21
And the LORD said to Moses, "Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to gaze at the LORD, and many of them perish.
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Genesis 32:30
So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: "For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
Judges 13:22
And Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, because we have seen God!
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1 Corinthians 10:18
Observe Israel after the flesh: Are not those who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
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Exodus 24:2
"And Moses alone shall come near the LORD, but they shall not come near; nor shall the people go up with him."
Exodus 24:15
Then Moses went up into the mountain, and a cloud covered the mountain.
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Cross References
Exodus 31:18
And when He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.
Exodus 32:15
And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the Testimony were in his hand. The tablets were written on both sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.
Deuteronomy 5:22
These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly, in the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and He added no more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
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Cross References
Exodus 32:17
And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, " There is a noise of war in the camp.
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Exodus 17:10
So Joshua did as Moses said to him, and fought with Amalek. And Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
Exodus 17:12
But Moses' hands became heavy; so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. And Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
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Cross References
Exodus 19:9
And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in the thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever." So Moses told the words of the people to the LORD.
Matthew 17:5
While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!
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Exodus 16:10
Now it came to pass, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.
Exodus 33:18
And he said, "Please, show me Your glory.
Numbers 14:10
And all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Now the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of meeting before all the children of Israel.
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Cross References
Exodus 3:2
And the Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a ...
Deuteronomy 4:26
I call heaven and earth to witness against you ...
Deuteronomy 4:36
Out of heaven He let you hear His voice, that H...
Deuteronomy 9:3
Therefore understand today that the LORD your G...
Hebrews 12:18
For you have not come to the mountain that may ...
Hebrews 12:29
For our God is a consuming fire.
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Cross References
Exodus 34:28
So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
Deuteronomy 9:9
When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.
Deuteronomy 10:10
As at the first time, I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights; the LORD also heard me at that time, and the LORD chose not to destroy you.
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