EX-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.

EX-19:2  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.

EX-19:3  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;

EX-19:4  Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and [how] I

bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.

EX-19:5  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:

EX-19:6  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.

EX-19:7  And Moses came and called for the elders of the people,

and

laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded

him.

EX-19:8  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.

EX-19:9  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.

EX-19:10  And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and

sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their

clothes,

EX-19:11  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.

EX-19:12  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:

EX-19:13  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.

EX-19:14  And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and

sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

EX-19:15  And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third

day: come not at [your] wives.

EX-19:16  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.

EX-19:17  And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to

meet

with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.

EX-19:18  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.

EX-19:19  And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and

waxed

louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.

EX-19:20  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.

EX-19:21  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.

EX-19:22  And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD,

sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.

EX-19:23  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.

EX-19:24  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.

EX-19:25  So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto

them.

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