Exodus 24:12-18

International Standard Version

Moses Receives the Law on the Mountain

¹² Then the Lord told Moses, “Go up to me on the mountain and stay^[a] there. I’ll give you stone tablets with the instruction and law that I’ve written to teach the people.”^[b]

¹³ So Moses got up, along with Joshua his servant, and went up on the mountain of God. ¹⁴ He told the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. Look, Aaron and Hur are with you, and whoever has a dispute, let him come to them.”

¹⁵ When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it. ¹⁶ The glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. Then on the seventh day he called to Moses from within the cloud. ¹⁷ To the Israelis^[c] the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a consuming fire on top of the mountain. ¹⁸ When Moses went up on the mountain, he went into the center of the cloud and was on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights.