24 3 The people promise to obey God. 4 Moses writeth the civil Laws. 9, 13 Moses returneth into the mountain. 14 Aaron and Hur have the charge of the people.  18 Moses was forty days and forty nights in the mountain.

Now he had [a]said unto Moses, Come up to the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the Elders of Israel, and ye shall worship afar off.

And Moses himself alone shall come near to the Lord, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 24:1 When he called him up to the mountain to give him the Laws, beginning at Exod. 20, hitherto.

The Covenant Confirmed

24 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron,(A) Nadab and Abihu,(B) and seventy of the elders(C) of Israel. You are to worship at a distance, but Moses alone is to approach(D) the Lord; the others must not come near. And the people may not come up with him.”

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