1 And HE (God) said unto Moses, Come up unto the Lord, thou, and Aaron,
Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye
afar off.
2 And Moses alone shall come near the Lord:but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
3
And 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, All
the words which the Lord hath said will we do.
(The
people made a vow before the LORD when they said this. They promised
they would do everything God said. This is a very serious matter and
would set the stage for judgment upon their evil doing.)
4
And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the
morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars,
according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
5
And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt
offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the Lord.
6
And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the
blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7 And he took the book of the
covenant, and read in the audience of the people:and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient.
(Making
a vow before the Lord ... setting up judgment of God ... Remember the
wedding vows taken by you? These set up judgment over you. All vows
set up judgment, even if you vow in private before God you set up
judgment over you. It is a very serious thing to vow before God either
in presence of others or alone.)
8
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said,
Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you
concerning all these words.
9 Then went up
Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of
Israel:10 And they saw the God of Israel:and there was under his feet as
it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of
heaven in his clearness. 11 And upon the nobles of the children of
Israel he laid not his hand:also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
(NT church ... today we eat and drink the scriptures, the Word of God, and we "see" God through HIS word)
12
And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be
there:and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments
which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua:and Moses went up into the mount of God.
14
And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again
unto you:and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you:if any man have any
matters to do, let him come unto them.
15
And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount. 16 And
the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it
six days:and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of
the cloud.
17 And the sight of the glory
of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes
of the children of Israel.
18 And Moses
went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount:and
Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
(After being with God, Moses was so changed they people couldn't stand to look upon him for his face glowed. So a veil was put over Moses face. Being with God changes us so the world can't stand us.)