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Exodus 24:11But to Moses the Lord said, “Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from a distance.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 11:16Exod 6:23Lev 10:1-2Exod 19:24Exod 28:11 Chr 6:3Exod 1:5Exod 19:20Exod 19:9Exod 20:21
Exodus 24:22Moses alone may come near the Lord, but the others must not come near, nor may the people go up with him.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 24:13Exod 24:15Exod 24:18Heb 10:21-22Heb 9:24Jer 30:21Jer 49:19Num 16:5Exod 20:21
Exodus 24:33Moses came and told the people all the Lord ’s words and all the decisions. All the people answered together, “We are willing to do all the words that the Lord has said,”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 19:8Exod 24:7Josh 24:22Deut 5:1Deut 6:1Deut 4:1Deut 4:45Deut 4:5Deut 5:27-28Deut 11:1
Exodus 24:44and Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. Early in the morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain and arranged twelve standing stones —according to the twelve tribes of Israel.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 31:9Gen 28:18Gal 2:9Josh 4:8-9Luke 22:30Rev 21:141 Kgs 11:30Exod 20:24-26Exod 28:21Ezra 6:17
Exodus 24:55He sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls for peace offerings to the Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 18:12Exod 19:22Lev 1:1-17Lev 3:1-17Lev 7:11-21
Exodus 24:66Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and half of the blood he splashed on the altar.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 1:19Exod 24:8Heb 9:18Lev 4:61 Pet 1:2Col 1:20Exod 12:22Exod 12:7Exod 29:16Exod 29:20
Exodus 24:77He took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people, and they said, “We are willing to do and obey all that the Lord has spoken.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 31:11-13Exod 24:3-4Heb 9:18-231 Thess 5:27Acts 13:15Col 4:16Jer 7:23-24
Exodus 24:88So Moses took the blood and splashed it on the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 10:4-5Exod 24:6Ezek 36:25Matt 26:281 Cor 11:25Heb 13:201 Pet 1:2Heb 9:18-21Mark 14:24Luke 22:20
Exodus 24:99Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 24:1
Exodus 24:1010and they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear like the sky itself.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 1:18Ezek 10:1Exod 33:20Exod 33:23Gen 32:301 Tim 6:16Ezek 1:26-28Isa 6:1-5Rev 4:31 John 4:12
Exodus 24:1111But he did not lay a hand on the leaders of the Israelites, so they saw God, and they ate and they drank.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 18:12Luke 15:23-24Gen 31:541 Cor 10:16-18Deut 12:7Eccl 9:7Exod 19:21Gen 16:131 Kgs 21:82 Chr 23:20
Exodus 24:1212The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandments that I have written, so that you may teach them.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 5:22Exod 31:18Exod 32:15-16Heb 9:42 Cor 3:3Jer 31:332 Cor 3:7Deut 4:14Exod 24:15Exod 24:18
Exodus 24:1313So Moses set out with Joshua his attendant, and Moses went up the mountain of God.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 33:11Num 11:28Exod 17:9-14Exod 3:1Exod 32:17
Exodus 24:1414He told the elders, “Wait for us in this place until we return to you. Here are Aaron and Hur with you. Whoever has any matters of dispute can approach them.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 17:12Exod 17:10Gen 22:51 Sam 10:81 Sam 13:8-13Exod 18:25-26Exod 32:1
Exodus 24:1515Moses went up the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 19:9Matt 17:5Exod 19:162 Chr 6:1
Exodus 24:1616The glory of the Lord resided on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called to Moses from within the cloud.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 16:10Num 16:42Ezek 1:28Lev 9:232 Cor 4:6Exod 19:11Exod 20:10Exod 24:17Num 14:10Ps 99:7
Exodus 24:1717Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in plain view of the people.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 12:29Deut 4:24Deut 4:36Exod 3:2Heb 12:18Exod 19:18Hab 3:4-5Ezek 1:27Nah 1:6
Exodus 24:1818Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 9:9Deut 10:10Exod 34:28Deut 9:18Deut 9:251 Kgs 19:8Exod 19:20Exod 24:17Exod 9:29Exod 9:33
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