¹² Put limits^(A) for the people around the mountain and tell them, ‘Be careful that you do not approach the mountain or touch the foot of it. Whoever touches the mountain is to be put to death.

¹³ They are to be stoned^(A) or shot with arrows; not a hand is to be laid on them. No person or animal shall be permitted to live.’ Only when the ram’s horn^(B) sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”^(C)

⁹ Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders^(A) of Israel went up ¹⁰ and saw^(B) the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli,^(C) as bright blue as the sky.^{(D) 11} But God did not raise his hand against these leaders of the Israelites; they saw^(E) God, and they ate and drank.^(F)