Bible Verses

Moses then took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, saying: “Here is the blood of the Covenant that the Lord has made with you by all these words.”

He then took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the people’s hearing. They said: “All that the Lord said we shall do and obey.”

And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins, and with the other half of the blood, he sprinkled the altar.

 He then sent young men from among the sons of Israel to offer burnt offerings and sacrifice bullocks as peace offerings to the Lord.

Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord, then rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain with twelve raised stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.

Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all his laws. The people replied with one voice: “Everything that the Lord has said, we shall do.”

Moses alone shall go forward to the Lord, but not the others, nor shall the people go up with him.”

Rite of the Covenant Then he said to Moses: “Go up to the Lord, you, Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu with seventy of the elders of Israel, and let them worship from a distance.

They shall not live in your country lest they lead you to sin against me and to serve their gods. That would surely be a snare for you.”They shall not live in your country lest they lead you to sin against me and to serve their gods. That would surely be a snare for you.”