Exodus 24

The Covenant Confirmed

1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. You are to worship at a distance,
2 but Moses alone is to approach the LORD; the others must not come near. And the people may not come up with him.”
3 When Moses went and told the people all the LORD’s words and laws, they responded with one voice, “Everything the LORD has said we will do.”
4 Moses then wrote down everything the LORD had said. He got up early the next morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel.
5 Then he sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as fellowship offerings to the LORD.
6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splashed against the altar.
7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, “We will do everything the LORD has said; we will obey.”
8 Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
9 Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up
10 and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as bright blue as the sky.
11 But God did not raise his hand against these leaders of the Israelites; they saw God, and they ate and drank.
12 The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”
13 Then Moses set out with Joshua his aide, and Moses went up on the mountain of God.
14 He said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we come back to you. Aaron and Hur are with you, and anyone involved in a dispute can go to them.”
15 When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it,
16 and the glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered the mountain, and on the seventh day the LORD called to Moses from within the cloud.
17 To the Israelites the glory of the LORD looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain.
18 Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Cross References 36

  • 1. S Exodus 19:24
  • 2. S Exodus 6:23; Leviticus 10:1-2
  • 3. ver 9; Numbers 11:16
  • 4. Numbers 12:6-8
  • 5. S Exodus 21:1; Galatians 3:19
  • 6. S Exodus 19:8; Joshua 24:24; Deuteronomy 5:27
  • 7. S Exodus 17:14; Deuteronomy 31:9
  • 8. S Genesis 8:20
  • 9. S Genesis 28:18; S Deuteronomy 27:2
  • 10. Leviticus 1:3
  • 11. S Genesis 31:54
  • 12. Exodus 14:15; Exodus 32:31; Psalms 99:6
  • 13. Hebrews 9:18
  • 14. Leviticus 1:11; Leviticus 3:2,8,13; Leviticus 5:9; Matthew 26:28
  • 15. 2 Kings 23:2,21; Hebrews 9:19
  • 16. Exodus 19:8; Jeremiah 40:3; Jeremiah 42:6,21; Jeremiah 43:2
  • 17. Hebrews 9:19; 1 Peter 1:2
  • 18. Leviticus 26:3; Deuteronomy 5:2-3; Joshua 24:25; 2 Kings 11:17; Jeremiah 11:4,8; Jeremiah 31:32; Jeremiah 34:13; Zechariah 9:11; S Matthew 26:28; S Luke 22:20; Hebrews 9:20*; 1 Peter 1:2
  • 19. S ver 1
  • 20. S Genesis 16:13; Numbers 12:6; Isaiah 6:1; Ezekiel 1:1; Ezekiel 8:3; Ezekiel 40:2; Matthew 17:2; S John 1:18; John 6:46
  • 21. Job 28:16; Isaiah 54:11; Ezekiel 1:26; Ezekiel 10:1
  • 22. Revelation 4:3
  • 23. S ver 10; Genesis 32:30; S Exodus 3:6; S Exodus 19:21
  • 24. Ezekiel 44:3; Matthew 26:29
  • 25. Exodus 31:18; Exodus 32:15-16; Exodus 34:1,28,29; Deuteronomy 4:13; Deuteronomy 5:22; Deuteronomy 8:3; Deuteronomy 9:9,10,11; Deuteronomy 10:4; 2 Corinthians 3:3
  • 26. S Exodus 17:9
  • 27. S Exodus 3:1
  • 28. S Exodus 17:10
  • 29. Exodus 18:16
  • 30. S Exodus 19:9; Matthew 17:5
  • 31. S Exodus 16:7; Leviticus 9:23; Numbers 14:10; 1 Samuel 4:21,22; Ezekiel 8:4; Ezekiel 11:22; Exodus 16:10
  • 32. S Exodus 19:11
  • 33. Psalms 99:7
  • 34. S Exodus 15:7; S Exodus 19:18; Exodus 3:2; Deuteronomy 4:36; Hebrews 12:18,29
  • 35. 1 Kings 19:8; Deuteronomy 9:9
  • 36. S Genesis 7:4; Matthew 4:2; Exodus 34:28

Exodus 24 Commentaries

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