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Chapter 19 |
1 | In the third month, when the children of
Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they
into the wilderness of Sinai. |
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For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of
Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before
the mount. |
3 | And Moses went up
unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus
shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; |
4 | Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians,
and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. |
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| Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my
covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people:
for all the earth is mine: |
6 | And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of
priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak
unto the children of Israel. |
7 | And
Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before
their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him. |
8 | And all the people answered together, and
said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the
words of the people unto the LORD. |
9 |
And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud,
that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for
ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD. |
10 | And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the
people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their
clothes, |
11 | And be ready
against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the
sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. |
12 |
And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to
yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it:
whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death: |
13 |
There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be
stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when
the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
Heb 12:20
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14 | And Moses went
down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they
washed their clothes. |
15 |
And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at
your wives. |
16 | And
it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were
thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice
of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the
camp trembled.
Heb 12:21
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17 | And Moses brought forth the people out of
the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the
mount. |
18 | And mount Sinai
was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire:
and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole
mount quaked greatly.
Haggai 2:6
Heb 12:26
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19 | And
when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder,
Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice. |
20 |
And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the
LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up. |
21 | And the LORD
said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through
unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. |
22 |
And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest
the LORD break forth upon them. |
23 | And Moses said unto the LORD, The people
cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds
about the mount, and sanctify it. |
24 |
And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up,
thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break
through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them. |
25 | So Moses went down unto the people, and
spake unto them. |