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    Exodus 19

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    At Sinai, Moses is sent down to stop the people climbing the mountain, explains that they have already been stopped, and is sent down again with Aaron—revelation here comes with a surprisingly persistent usher.

    A treasured people at the mountainvv. 1–9

    Israel leaves Rephidim and camps in the Wilderness of Sinai before the mountain. Moses goes up, and the LORD speaks of Egypt, eagles’ wings, a covenant, and a people who will be a kingdom of priests. Moses brings the words to the elders; Israel answers together, and Moses carries that answer back. A dense cloud is promised, so that the people may hear the LORD speaking with Moses and trust him.

    The mountain receives a boundaryvv. 10–15

    The people are to be consecrated, wash their clothes, and be ready for the third day, when the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai. A boundary is set around the mountain, with an unusually exact prohibition: neither hand nor hoof is to cross it, and the ram’s horn will decide when approach is permitted. Moses comes down, consecrates the people, and gives the final instruction before the third day.

    Fire, thunder, and the second descentvv. 16–25

    On the third morning, thunder, lightning, a thick cloud, and a very loud ram’s horn make the camp tremble. Moses brings Israel to the foot of the mountain, which smokes like a furnace and quakes as the LORD descends in fire. The horn grows louder while Moses speaks and God answers in thunder. Then Moses is called up, sent down to warn the people not to break through, replies that the boundary has already been given, and is sent down once more—this time to bring Aaron.

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    1. Exod 19:1In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.

    2. Exod 19:2After they had set out from Rephidim, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai, and Israel camped there in front of the mountain.

    3. Exod 19:3Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain, “This is what you are to tell the house of Jacob and explain to the sons of Israel:

    4. Exod 19:4‘You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.

    5. Exod 19:5Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.

    6. Exod 19:6And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.”

    7. Exod 19:7So Moses went back and summoned the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him.

    8. Exod 19:8And all the people answered together, “We will do everything that the LORD has spoken.” So Moses brought their words back to the LORD.

    9. Exod 19:9The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear when I speak with you, and they will always put their trust in you.” And Moses relayed to the LORD what the people had said.

    10. Exod 19:10Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes

    11. Exod 19:11and be prepared by the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

    12. Exod 19:12And you are to set up a boundary for the people around the mountain and tell them, ‘Be careful not to go up on the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.

    13. Exod 19:13No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with arrows—whether man or beast, he must not live.’ Only when the ram’s horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”

    14. Exod 19:14When Moses came down from the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.

    15. Exod 19:15“Be prepared for the third day,” he said to the people. “Do not draw near to a woman.”

    16. Exod 19:16On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.

    17. Exod 19:17Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

    18. Exod 19:18Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.

    19. Exod 19:19And as the sound of the ram’s horn grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him in the thunder.

    20. Exod 19:20The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the summit. So Moses went up,

    21. Exod 19:21and the LORD said to him, “Go down and warn the people not to break through to see the LORD, lest many of them perish.

    22. Exod 19:22Even the priests who approach the LORD must consecrate themselves, or the LORD will break out against them.”

    23. Exod 19:23But Moses said to the LORD, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, for You solemnly warned us, ‘Put a boundary around the mountain and set it apart as holy.’”

    24. Exod 19:24And the LORD replied, “Go down and bring Aaron with you. But the priests and the people must not break through to come up to the LORD, or He will break out against them.”

    25. Exod 19:25So Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 5Deuteronomy 14:2for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
    • 5Deuteronomy 7:6For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
    • 5Deuteronomy 26:18And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,
    • 6Revelation 5:10You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”
    • 5Malachi 3:17“They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.
    • 61 Peter 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
    • 5Exodus 15:26saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
    • 4Deuteronomy 32:11–12As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions.
    • 4Isaiah 63:9In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
    • 61 Peter 2:5you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
    • 4Isaiah 40:31But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
    • 5Psalms 135:4For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.
    • 8Exodus 24:7Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”
    • 5Exodus 23:22But if you will listen carefully to his voice and do everything I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.
    • 4Deuteronomy 29:2Moses summoned all Israel and proclaimed to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land.
    • 5Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

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