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.
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.
And Moses went up unto God, and the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how* I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.
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:
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.
¶ And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** commanded him.
And all the people answered together, and said, All that the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**.
And the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** 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 \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**.
¶ And the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
And be ready against the third day: for the third day the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
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:
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.
¶ And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your* wives.
¶ 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.
And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
And the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** called Moses up* to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
And the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** to gaze, and many of them perish.
And let the priests also, which come near to the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**, sanctify themselves, lest the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** break forth upon them.
And Moses said unto the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
And the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** 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 \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**, lest he break forth upon them.
So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.