7. He then took the covenant scroll and read it aloud to the people. They responded, “We will do and obey everything that the Lord has commanded.”
8. Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you concerning all these words.”
9. Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and 70 of Israel’s elders,
10. and they saw the God of Israel. Beneath His feet was something like a pavement made of sapphire stone, as clear as the sky itself.
11. God did not harm the Israelite nobles; they saw Him, and they ate and drank.
12. The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay there so that I may give you the stone tablets with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”
13. So Moses arose with his assistant Joshua and went up the mountain of God.
14. He told the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. Aaron and Hur are here with you. Whoever has a dispute should go to them.”
15. When Moses went up the mountain, the cloud covered it.
16. The glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day He called to Moses from the cloud.
17. The appearance of the Lord’s glory to the Israelites was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop.
18. Moses entered the cloud as he went up the mountain, and he remained on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights.