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Exodus 24 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

Exo 24:1And to Moses he said, Go up to the Lord, thou and Aaron and Nadab and Abiud, and seventy of the elders of Israel: and they shall worship the Lord from a distance.
Exo 24:2And Moses alone shall draw nigh to God; and they shall not draw nigh, and the people shall not come up with them.
Exo 24:3And Moses went in and related to the people all the words of God and the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, saying, All the words which the Lord has spoken, we will do and [fn]be obedient.
Exo 24:4And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and set up twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.
Exo 24:5And he sent forth the young men of the children of Israel, and they offered whole burnt-offerings, and they sacrificed young calves as a peace-offering to God.
Exo 24:6And Moses took half the blood and poured it into bowls, and half the blood he poured out upon the altar.
Exo 24:7And he took the book of the covenant and read it in the ears of the people, and they said, All things whatsoever the Lord has spoken we will do and hearken therein.
Exo 24:8And [fn] Moses took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord has made with you concerning all these words.
Exo 24:9And Moses went up, and Aaron, and Nadab and Abiud, and seventy of the elders of Israel.
Exo 24:10And they saw the place where the God of Israel stood; and under his feet was as it were a work of sapphire slabs, and as it were the appearance of the firmament of heaven in its purity.
Exo 24:11And of the chosen ones of Israel there was not even one missing, and they appeared in [fn]the place of God, and did eat and drink.
Exo 24:12And the Lord said to Moses, Come up to me into the mountain, and be there; and I will give thee the tables of stone, the law and the commandments, which I have written to give them laws.
Exo 24:13And Moses rose up and Joshua his attendant, and they went up into the mount of God.
Exo 24:14And to the elders they said, Rest there till we return to you; and behold, Aaron and Or are with you: if any man have a cause to be tried, let them go to them.
Exo 24:15And Moses and Joshua went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
Exo 24:16And the glory of God came down upon the mount Sina, and the cloud covered it six days; and the Lord called Moses on the seventh day out of the midst of the cloud.
Exo 24:17And the appearance of the glory of the Lord was as burning fire on the top of the mountain, before the children of Israel.
Exo 24:18And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and went up to the mountain, and was there in the mountain forty days and forty nights.
BES Footnotes
Lit. hearken.
i. e. where God was.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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