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chapter 19
1
In the
third month of the departure of Israel out of the land of Egypt, on this day
they came into the wilderness of Sinai:
2 For departing out of Raphidim, and coming to the
desert of Sinai, they camped in the same place, and there Israel pitched their
tents over against the mountain.
3 And Moses went up to God: and the Lord called unto
him from the mountain, and said: Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and
tell the children of Israel:
4 You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, how
I have carried you upon the wings of eagles, and have taken you to myself.
5 If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my
covenant, you shall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the
earth is mine.
6 And you shall be to me a priestly kingdom, and a holy
nation. Those are the words thou shalt speak to the children of Israel.
7 Moses came, and calling together the elders of the
people, he declared all the words which the Lord had commanded.
8 And all the people answered together: All that the
Lord hath spoken, we will do. And when Moses had related the people's words to
the Lord,
9 The Lord said to him: Lo, now will I come to thee in
the darkness of a cloud, that the people may hear me speaking to thee, and may
believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people to the Lord.
10 And he said to him: Go to the people, and sanctify
them to day, and to morrow, and let them wash their garments.
11 And let them be ready against the third day: for on
the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount
Sinai.
12 And thou shalt appoint certain limits to the people
round about, and thou shalt say to them: Take heed you go not up into the
mount, and that ye touch not the borders thereof: every one that toucheth the
mount dying he shall die.
13 No hands shall touch him, but he shall be stoned to
death, or shall be shot through with arrows: whether it be beast, or man, he
shall not live. When the trumpet shall begin to sound, then let them go up into
the mount.
14 And Moses came down from the mount to the people,
and sanctified them. And when they had washed their garments,
15 He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and
come not near your wives.
16 And now the third day was come, and the morning
appeared: and behold thunders began to be heard, and lightning to flash, and a
very thick cloud to cover the mount, and the noise of the trumpet sounded
exceeding loud, and the people that was in the camp, feared.
17 And when Moses had brought them forth to meet God
from the place of the camp, they stood at the bottom of the mount.
18 And all mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord
was come down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace:
and all the mount was terrible.
19 And the sound of the trumpet grew by degrees louder
and louder, and was drawn out to a greater length: Moses spoke, and God
answered him.
20 And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, in the very
top of the mount, and he called Moses unto the top thereof. And when he was
gone up thither,
21 He said unto him: Go down, and charge the people:
lest they should have a mind to pass the limits to see the Lord, and a very
great multitude of them should perish.
22 The priests also that come to the Lord, let them be
sanctified, lest he strike them.
23 And Moses said to the Lord: The people cannot come
up to mount Sinai: for thou did charge, and command, saying: Set limits about
the mount, and sanctify it.
24 And the Lord said to him: Go, get thee down: and
thou shalt come up, thou and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the
people pass the limits, nor come up to the Lord, lest he kill them.
25 And Moses went down to the people and told them all.
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