Theophany at Mount Sinai – Exodus – The Brick Bible

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Three months after leaving Egypt, the Israelites reached the desert of Sinai and pitched camp facing the mountain.

1 of 17 Exodus 19:1–2

Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him from the mountain: "Tell the Israelites, 'If you obey me and keep my covenant, then out of all peoples, you shall be my personal possession, for the whole world is mine. For me, you shall be a kingdom of priests, a holy nation.'"

2 of 17 Exodus 19:3–6

So Moses went and summoned the people's elders and acquainted them with everything Yahweh had bidden him.

3 of 17 Exodus 19:7

And the people all replied with one accord: "Everything that Yahweh has said, we will do."

4 of 17 Exodus 19:8

Moses then reported to Yahweh what the people had said.

5 of 17 Exodus 19:8

Yahweh then said to Moses: "Look, I shall come to you in a dense cloud so that the people will hear when I speak to you and believe you ever after."

6 of 17 Exodus 19:9

"Go to the people and tell them to sanctify themselves today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes, for the day after tomorrow, Yahweh will descend on Mount Sinai."

7 of 17 Exodus 19:10–11

"You will mark out the limits of the mountain. Anyone who touches the mountain will be put to death. But no one must touch him, he must be stoned or shot with an arrow."

8 of 17 Exodus 19:12–13

"So Moses came down from the mountain. He then said to the people: Be ready for the day after tomorrow. Do not touch a woman."

9 of 17 Exodus 19:14–15

At daybreak two days later, there were peals of thunder and flashes of lightning, and a very loud trumpet blast.

10 of 17 Exodus 19:16

Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their stand at the bottom of the mountain.

11 of 17 Exodus 19:17

Louder and louder grew the trumpeting. Yahweh descended on Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

12 of 17 Exodus 19:19–20

Yahweh then said to Moses: "Go down and warn the people not to break through to look at Yahweh, or many of them will perish."

13 of 17 Exodus 19:21

"Even the priests who have access to Yahweh must sanctify themselves, or Yahweh may burst out against them!"

14 of 17 Exodus 19:22

Moses said to Yahweh: "The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, since you yourself warned us to mark out the limits of the mountain and declare it sacred."

15 of 17 Exodus 19:23

Yahweh said: "Away with you! Go down! Then come back bringing Aaron with you."

16 of 17 Exodus 19:24

"But do not allow the priests and people to break through to come up to Yahweh, or he may burst out against them!"

17 of 17 Exodus 19:24

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