Exodus Chapter 19

Exodus Chapter 19
1 In the third month, after the children of
Israel were gone out of the land of
Egypt, the same day came they into the
wilderness of Sinai.
2 For they departed from Rephidim, and
came to the desert of Sinai, and camped
in the wilderness: even there Israel
camped before the mount. 3 But Moses
went up unto God, for the Lord had
called out of the mount unto him, saying,
Thus shalt thou say to the house of
Jacob, and tell the children of Israel,
4 Ye have seen what I did unto the
Egyptians, and how I carried you upon
eagles’ wings, and have brought you
unto me.
5 Now therefore if ye will hear my
voice indeed, and keep my covenant,
then ye shall be my chief treasure above
all people, though all the earth be mine.
6 Ye shall be unto me also a kingdom of
priests, and an holy nation. These are the
words which thou shalt speak unto the
children of Israel. 7 Moses then came
and called for the elders of the people,
and proposed unto them all these things,
which the Lord commanded him.
8 And the people answered all together,
and said, All that the Lord hath
commanded, we will do. And Moses
reported the words of the people unto
the Lord.
9 And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I
come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the
people may hear, while I talk with thee,
and that they may also believe thee
forever. (for Moses had told the words
of the people unto the Lord) 10
Moreover, the Lord said unto Moses, Go
to the people, and sanctify them today
and tomorrow, and let them wash their
clothes.
11 And let them be ready on the third
day: for the third day the Lord will come
down in the sight of all the people upon
mount Sinai:
12 And thou shalt set marks unto the
people round about, saying, Take heed to
yourselves that ye go not up to the mount,
nor touch the border of it: whosoever
toucheth the mount, shall surely die.
13 No hand shall touch it, but he shall be
stoned to death, or stricken through with
darts: whether it be beast or man, he
shall not live: when the horn bloweth
long, they shall come up into the
mountain.
14 Then Moses went down from the
mount unto the people, and sanctified the
people, and they washed their clothes.
15 And he said unto the people, Be
ready on the third day, and come not at
your wives.
16 And the third day, when it was
morning, there was thunders and
lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the
mount, and the sound of the trumpet
exceeding loud, so that all the people,
that was in the camp, was afraid. 17
Then Moses brought the people out of
the tents to meet with God, and they
stood in the nether part of the mount.
18 And mount Sinai was all on smoke,
because the Lord came down upon it in
fire, and the smoke thereof ascended, as
the smoke of a furnace, and all the mount
trembled exceedingly.
19 And when the sound of the trumpet
blew long, and waxed louder and
louder, Moses spake, and God answered
him by voice.
20 (For the Lord came down upon mount
Sinai on the top of the mount) and when
the Lord called Moses up into the top of
the mount, Moses went up. 21 Then the
Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge
the people, that they break not their
bounds, to go up to the Lord to gaze, lest
many of them perish. 22 And let the
priests also which come to the Lord be
sanctified, lest the Lord destroy them.
23 And Moses said unto the Lord, The
people cannot come up into the mount
Sinai: for thou hast charged us, saying,
Set marks on the mountain, and sanctify
it.
24 And the Lord said unto him, Go, get
thee down, and come up, thou, and
Aaron with thee: but let not the priests
and the people break their bounds to
come up unto the Lord, lest he destroy
them.
25 So Moses went down unto the
people, and told them.