Exodus
Chapter 24
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1He said to Moses, “Come up to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and you shall bow low from a distance.
2Moses alone shall come near God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. They shall not come near, and the people shall not come up with him.”
3Moses came and told the people all God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s words and all the rules. All the people answered with one voice, “All the words God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has spoken, we will do.”
4Moses wrote all God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s words. He got up early in the morning and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve standing stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.
5He sent the young men of the sons of Israel, and they offered whole offerings and sacrificed sacrifices of well-being to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., bulls.
6Moses took half the blood and put it in basins, and half the blood he dashed on the altar.
7He took the scroll of the A solemn agreement that binds God and people. and read it in the people’s hearing, and they said, “Everything God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has spoken, we will do, and we will listen.”
8Moses took the blood and dashed it on the people and said, “Look, the blood of the A solemn agreement that binds God and people. that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has cut with you over all these words.”
9Moses went up, and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel.
10They saw the God of Israel, and under his feet something like a pavement of sapphire tile, and like the substance of the sky for clarity.
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Livnat ha-sappir is a pavement of sapphire, tile-work. Etzem ha-shamayim latohar is the very body of the sky, clear. The sight is printed as the comparison the Hebrew gives. Nothing further is described.
11Against the nobles of the sons of Israel he did not stretch out his hand. They beheld God, and they ate and drank.
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Atzilim are the nobles, the leading men who went up. “Corners” is a possible sense of the root, and it is not printed.
12God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and be there, and I will give you the tablets of stone, and the instruction and the command, which I have written to teach them.”
13Moses got up, and Joshua his attendant, and Moses went up the mountain of God.
14He said to the elders, “Stay here for us until we return to you. Look, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever has a matter, let him approach them.”
15Moses went up the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
16God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. He called to Moses on the seventh day from the middle of the cloud.
17The sight of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s glory was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain, in the eyes of the sons of Israel.
18Moses went into the middle of the cloud and went up the mountain. Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.