1 Depois, o Senhor instruiu assim Moisés: Sobe aqui com Arão, Nadabe e Abiú, mais setenta dos anciãos de Israel. Todos vocês, com excepção de Moisés, adorarão à distância. Apenas Moisés se aproximará do Senhor. E não se esqueçam de que ninguém do povo deverá subir com ele.
3 Então Moisés anunciou ao povo todas as leis e mandamentos que Deus lhe tinha dado. O povo respondeu por unanimidade: Obedeceremos a todas essas palavras.
4 Moisés escreveu tudo o que o Senhor lhe dissera. De manhã cedo construiu um altar ao pé da montanha com doze pilares à volta, porque eram doze as tribos de Israel.
5 Em seguida mandou alguns mancebos sacrificarem ofertas queimadas ao Senhor. Moisés tomou metade do sangue destes animais e deitou-o em bacias; com a outra metade espargiu o altar.
7 E leu para o povo o livro da aliança. E o povo tornou a dizer: Prometemos obedecer a tudo o que o Senhor nos mandou.
8 Em seguida Moisés espargiu o povo com o sangue que estava nas bacias dizendo: Este sangue confirma a aliança que o Senhor fez convosco, na base de todos estes mandamentos.
9 Então Moisés, Arão, Nadabe e Abiú, mais os setenta anciãos de Israel subiram à montanha. E viram o Deus de Israel. Sob os seus pés parecia haver um chão de pedras de safira, tão límpidas como o azul do firmamento. Contudo, ainda que tenham visto Deus, ele não destruiu esses privilegiados dos filhos de Israel. E comeram e beberam na presença do Senhor.
12 O Senhor disse a Moisés: Sobe à montanha junto de mim e fica aí até que te dê as leis e os mandamentos que escrevi nas placas de pedra, para que possas ensinar o povo com elas.
13 E assim Moisés, acompanhado de Josué, seu auxiliar, subiu à montanha de Deus.
14 E disse para os anciãos: Fiquem aqui, esperem por nós até que regressemos. Se houver algum problema enquanto estamos ausentes consultem Arão e Hur.
15 Então Moisés subiu à montanha e desapareceu numa nuvem que cobria o cimo.
16 A glória do Senhor permaneceu sobre o Monte Sinai e a nuvem o cobriu durante seis dias. Ao sétimo, ele chamou Moisés desde a nuvem. Os que estavam em baixo puderam observar aquele tremendo espectáculo: a glória do Senhor no cimo da montanha parecia um intenso fogo.
18 Moisés entretanto desapareceu lá no cimo, no interior da nuvem, e ali ficou quarenta dias e quarenta noites.
1 And he said to Moses, Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and you{+} worship far off:
2 and Moses alone will come near to Yahweh; but they will not come near; neither will the people go up with him.
3 And 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 we will do.
4 And Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
5 And he sent young men of the sons of Israel, who offered burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen to Yahweh.
6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; 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 Yahweh has spoken we will do, and be obedient.
8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Here is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has 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 sapphire stone, and as it were the very heaven for clearness.
11 And on the nobles of the sons of Israel he didn't lay his hand: and they saw God, and ate and drank.
12 And Yahweh said to Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give you the tables of stone, and the law and the commandment, which I have written, that you may teach them.
13 And Moses rose up, and Joshua his minister: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
14 And he said to the elders, You{+} tarry here for us, until we come again to you{+}: and, look, Aaron and Hur are with you{+}: whoever has a cause, let him come near to them.
15 And Moses went up into the mount, and the cloud covered the mount.
16 And the glory of Yahweh stayed on mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
17 And the appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the sons of Israel.
18 And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.