15. Then Moses said to the people, “Be ready two days from now. Don’t disqualify yourselves by having sexual intercourse.”
16. On the morning of the second day, there was thunder and lightning with a heavy cloud over the mountain, and a very loud blast from a ram’s horn ⌊was heard⌋. All the people in the camp shook with fear.
17. Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.
18. All of Mount Sinai was covered with smoke because the Lord had come down on it in fire. Smoke rose from the mountain like the smoke from a kiln, and the whole mountain shook violently.
19. As the sound of the horn grew louder and louder, Moses was speaking, and the voice of God answered him.
20. The Lord came down on top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. So Moses went up.
21. The Lord said to him, “Go down and warn the people not to force their way through ⌊the boundary⌋ to see the Lord, or many of them will die.