8. Moses then took the blood and threw it over the people. Moses said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord now makes with you on the basis of all these words."
9. Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy elders of Israel went up,
10. and they saw Israel’s God. Under God’s feet there was what looked like a floor of lapis-lazuli tiles, dazzlingly pure like the sky.
11. God didn’t harm the Israelite leaders, though they looked at God, and they ate and drank.
12. The Lord said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain and wait there. I’ll give you the stone tablets with the instructions and the commandments that I’ve written in order to teach them."