4. Then Moses wrote all the words of the Lord. And rising up in the morning, he built an altar at the base of the mountain, with twelve titles according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
5. And he sent youths from the sons of Israel, and they offered holocausts, and they immolated calves as peace-offerings to the Lord.
6. And so Moses took one half part of the blood, and he put it into bowls. Then the remaining part he poured over the altar.
7. And taking up the book of the covenant, he read it in the hearing of the people, who said: "All that the Lord has spoken, we will do, and we will be obedient."
8. In truth, taking up the blood, he sprinkled it on the people, and he said, "This is the blood of the covenant, which the Lord has formed with you concerning all these words."
9. And Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel ascended.
10. And they saw the God of Israel. And under his feet was something like a work of sapphire stone, or like the sky, when it is serene.
11. Neither did he lay his hand upon those of the sons of Israel who were at a distance. And they saw God, and they ate and drank.
12. Then the Lord said to Moses: "Ascend to me on the mountain, and be there. And I will give to you tablets of stone, and the law and the commandments that I have written. So may you teach them."
13. Moses rose up, with Joshua his minister. And Moses, ascending on the mountain of God,