1 To Moyses also he said: Go up to the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy Ancients of Israel, and you shall adore a far off.
1 And he said to Moses: Come up to the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel, and you shall adore afar off.
2 And Moyses only shall ascend to the Lord, and they shall not approach: neither shall the people ascend with him.
2 And Moses alone shall come up to the Lord, but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people come up with him.
3 Moyses therefore came and told the people all the words of our Lord, & the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice: All the words of our Lord, which he hath spoken, we will do.
3 So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice: We will do all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken.
4 And Moyses wrote all the words of our Lord: and rising in the morning he builded an Altar at the foot of the mount, & twelve titles according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
4 And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord: and rising in the morning, he built an altar at the foot of the mount, and twelve titles according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, & they offered holocausts, & sacrificed pacific victims to our Lord, calves.
5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, and they offered holocausts, and sacrificed pacific victims of calves to the Lord.
6 Moyses therefore took the half part of the blood, and put it into bowls: and the residue he poured upon the Altar.
6 Then Moses took half of the blood, and put it into bowls; and the rest he poured upon the altar.
7 And taking the volume of the covenant, he read the people hearing it: Who said, All things that our Lord hath spoken, we will do, and we will be obedient.
7 And taking the book of the covenant, he read it in the hearing of the people: and they said: All things that the Lord hath spoken, we will do, we will be obedient.
8 And he took the blood, and sprinkled it upon the people, and said: This is the blood of the Covenant which our Lord hath made with you upon all these words.
8 And he took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and he said: ¹This is the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.
9 And there went up Moyses and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the Ancients of Israel:
9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel went up:
10 and they saw the God of Israel: and under his feet as it were a work of sapphire stone, and as the heaven, when it is clear.
10 And they saw the God of Israel: and under his feet as it were a work of sapphire stone, and as the heaven, when clear.
11 Neither did he set his hand upon those of the children of Israel, that retired far off, and they saw God, and did eat, and drink.
11 Neither did he lay his hand upon those of the children of Israel, that retired afar off, and they saw God, and they did eat and drink.
12 And our Lord said to Moyses: Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and the law, and the commandments which I have written: that thou mayst teach them.
12 And the Lord said to Moses: Come up to me into the mount, and be there; and I will give thee tables of stone, and the law, and the commandments which I have written; that thou mayst teach them.
13 Moyses rose up, and his Minister Josue: and Moyses ascending into the mount of God,
13 Moses rose up, and his minister Josue: and Moses going up into the mount of God,
14 said to the Ancients: Expect here till we return to you, you have Aaron and Hur with you: If any question shall rise, you shall refer it to them.
14 Said to the ancients: Wait ye here till we return to you. You have Aaron and Hur with you: if any question shall arise, you shall refer it to them.
15 And when Moyses was ascended, a cloud covered the mount,
15 And when Moses was gone up, a cloud covered the mount.
16 and the glory of our Lord dwelt upon Sinai, covering it with a cloud six days, and the seventh day he called him out of the midst of the darkness.
16 And the glory of the Lord dwelt upon Sinai, covering it with a cloud six days: and the seventh day he called him out of the midst of the cloud.
17 And the form of the glory of our Lord, was as it were fire burning upon the top of the mount, in the sight of the children of Israel.
17 And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like a burning fire upon the top of the mount, in the eyes of the children of Israel.
18 And Moyses entering into the midst of the cloud, ascended into the mount: and he was there forty days and forty nights.
18 And Moses entering into the midst of the cloud, went up into the mountain: ²And he was there forty days and forty nights.