12. The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain. Stay there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the teachings and the commandments I have written for the people’s instruction.”
13. Moses set out with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up on the mountain of God.
14. He said to the leaders, “Wait here for us until we come back to you. Aaron and Hur are here with you. Take all your disagreements to them.”
15. So Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered it.
16. The glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered it, and on the seventh day the Lord called to Moses from inside the cloud.
17. To the Israelites, the glory of the Lord looked like a raging fire on top of the mountain.