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    Exodus 24

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    The elders saw the God of Israel, found sapphire beneath His feet, and then ate and drank. It is an unexpectedly civilised meal at the edge of a consuming fire.

    The covenant is read, agreed, and sprinkledvv. 1–8

    The chapter begins with a very careful arrangement of distance: Moses may approach, while Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and the elders worship farther off, and the people remain below. Yet the ceremony itself draws everyone into the covenant rather more physically than expected. Moses writes the words, builds an altar and twelve pillars, receives the people’s agreement twice, and then splatters the blood on the people after putting half of it on the altar. The paperwork is solemn; the distribution method is memorable.

    A sapphire pavement, then suppervv. 9–18

    The restricted party becomes a larger one: Moses goes up with Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy elders, and they see the God of Israel. Beneath His feet is something like a sapphire pavement, clear as the sky. God does not lay a hand on the nobles, who see Him and eat and drink—a remarkably ordinary continuation after the most extraordinary sight in the chapter. Then Moses is summoned higher still, with Joshua as his attendant, while Aaron and Hur remain to hear disputes. The cloud covers the mountain for six days; on the seventh, Moses enters it and stays forty days and forty nights.

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    1. Exod 24:1Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you are to worship at a distance.

    2. Exod 24:2Moses alone shall approach the LORD, but the others must not come near. And the people may not go up with him.”

    3. Exod 24:3When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.”

    4. Exod 24:4And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Early the next morning he got up and built an altar at the base of the mountain, along with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

    5. Exod 24:5Then he sent out some young men of Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the LORD.

    6. Exod 24:6Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splattered on the altar.

    7. Exod 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.”

    8. Exod 24:8So Moses took the blood, splattered it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

    9. Exod 24:9Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,

    10. Exod 24:10and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.

    11. Exod 24:11But God did not lay His hand on the nobles of Israel; they saw Him, and they ate and drank.

    12. Exod 24:12Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

    13. Exod 24:13So Moses set out with Joshua his attendant and went up on the mountain of God.

    14. Exod 24:14And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. Aaron and Hur are here with you. Whoever has a dispute can go to them.”

    15. Exod 24:15When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it,

    16. Exod 24:16and 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 within the cloud.

    17. Exod 24:17And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.

    18. Exod 24:18Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

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    • 8Hebrews 10:4–5because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
    • 8Exodus 24:6Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splattered on the altar.
    • 8Ezekiel 36:25I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
    • 61 Peter 1:19but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.
    • 3Exodus 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.
    • 6Exodus 24:8So Moses took the blood, splattered it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
    • 8Matthew 26:28This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
    • 10John 1:18No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
    • 12Deuteronomy 5:22The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
    • 3Exodus 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.”
    • 7Deuteronomy 31:11–13when all Israel comes before the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read this law in the hearing of all Israel.
    • 81 Corinthians 11:25In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
    • 16Exodus 16:10And as Aaron was speaking to the whole congregation of Israel, they looked toward the desert, and there in a cloud the glory of the LORD appeared.
    • 1Numbers 11:16Then the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Me seventy of the elders of Israel known to you as leaders and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting and have them stand there with you.
    • 8Mark 14:24He said to them, “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.
    • 81 Peter 1:2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.

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