Exodus 19
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1 In the third month,
when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the
same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
2 For they were departed from
Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in
the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.
3 And Moses went up unto God, and
the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say
to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
4 Ye have seen what I did unto the
Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles wings, and brought you
unto myself.
5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my
voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure
unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom
of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou
shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
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.
25 So Moses went down unto the
people, and spake unto them.
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