Exodus Chapter 24
From The Open Bible Project
24:1 He said to Moses, "Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.
- (a) When he called him up to the mountain to give him the laws, beginning at the 20th chapter till now.
24:2 Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him."
24:3 Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do."
- (b) When he had received these laws in mount Sinai.
24:4 Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
24:5 He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh.
- (c) For as yet the priesthood was not given to Levi.
24:6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
24:7 He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient."
24:8 Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words."
- (d) Which signifies that the covenant broken cannot be satisfied without shedding of blood.
24:9 Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.
24:10 They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of [21] sapphire [See Exodus Footnotes 21] stone, like the skies for clearness.
- (e) As perfectly as their infirmities could behold his majesty.
24:11 He didn't lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.
- (f) He did not make them afraid, nor punish them.
- (g) That is, rejoiced.
24:12 Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the tables of stone with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them."
- (h) The second time.
- (i) Signifying the hardness of our hearts, unless God writes his laws in it by his Spirit, Jer 31:33, Eze 11:19, 2Co 3:3, He 8:10,10:16
- (k) That is, the people.
24:13 Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God's Mountain.
24:14 He said to the elders, "Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them."
24:15 Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
24:16 The glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
24:17 The appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
- (l) The Lord appears like devouring fire to carnal men: but to them that he draws with his Spirit, he is like pleasant sapphire.
24:18 Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
