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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Exodus 24</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/24.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmc//exodus/24-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/exodus/">Exodus</a> > Exodus 24</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/23.htm" title="Exodus 23">◄</a> Exodus 24 <a href="../exodus/25.htm" title="Exodus 25">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/exodus/24.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/exodus/24.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/exodus/24.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/exodus/24.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/exodus/24.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/exodus/24.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/exodus/24.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Covenant Sealed<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/24-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you are to worship at a distance. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/24-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Moses alone shall approach the LORD, but the others must not come near. And the people may not go up with him.” <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/24-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.” <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/24-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. <p class="reg"> Early the next morning he got up and built an altar at the base of the mountain, along with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/24-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then he sent out some young men of Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the LORD. <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/24-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he sprinkled on the altar. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/24-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.” <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/24-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So Moses 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.”<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/24-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/24-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/24-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But God did not lay His hand on the nobles of Israel; they saw Him, and they ate and drank. <A name="13"></a><p class="hdg">Moses on the Mountain<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/24-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.” <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/24-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So Moses set out with Joshua his attendant and went up on the mountain of God. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/24-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. Aaron and Hur are here with you. Whoever has a dispute can go to them.” <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/24-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/24-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and the glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered it, and on the seventh day the LORD called to Moses from within the cloud. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/24-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/24-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Cited in <a href="../hebrews/9.htm#20">Hebrews 9:20</a><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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