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1Moses himself was told: Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron,
with Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. You
shall bow down at a distance. 2Moses alone is to come close to
the LORD; the others shall not come close, and the people shall
not come up with them. 3When Moses came to the people and
related all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all
answered with one voice, “We will do everything that the LORD
has told us.”a 4Moses then wrote down all the words of the LORD
and, rising early in the morning, he built at the foot of the
mountain an altar and twelve sacred stones* for the twelve
tribes of Israel. 5b Then, having sent young men of the
Israelites to offer burnt offerings and sacrifice young bulls as
communion offerings to the LORD, 6Moses took half of the blood
and put it in large bowls; the other half he splashed on the
altar. 7Taking the book of the covenant,