Bible Verses

The Lord replied: “Go down and bring up Aaron with you, but do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the Lord, or he will break out against them.”

Moses answered the Lord: “The people cannot ascend Mount Sinai because you ordered us to put limits around the mountain and set it apart as holy.”

Even the priests who come near the Lord must purify themselves lest the Lord break out against them.”

 where the Lord said to him: “Go down and give this warning to the people, lest they rush to see the Lord and many of them perish.

When the Lord had come down to the summit of Mount Sinai, God called Moses, who went to the summit

 while the trumpet’s blast became louder and louder. Moses spoke, and God replied in thunder.

Mount Sinai was completely covered in smoke because the Lord had come down in a fire, and the smoke rose as from a furnace. The whole mountain shook violently,

17 Moses then led the people out of the camp to meet God and stand at the foot of the mountain.

On the morning of the third day, there was thunder and lightning and a dense cloud over the mountain, and a thunderous trumpet blast was heard. All the people in the camp trembled.

He then said to the people: “Be ready in three days and abstain from sexual relations.”