Êxodo 19

¹ In theWhich was in the beginning of the month of Sivan, containing part of May and part of June.third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the sameThat they departed from Rephidim.day came they [into] the wilderness of Sinai.

² For they departed from Rephidim, & came to the desart of Sinai, and camped in the wildernesse: euen there Israel camped before the mount.

³ And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house ofGod called Jacob, Israel: therefore the house of Jacob and the people of Israel signify God's people.Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;

⁴ Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and [how] I bare you onFor the eagle by flying high, is out of danger, and by carrying her birds on her wings rather than in her talons declares her love.eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.

⁵ Now therefore if ye wil heare my voyce in deede, and keepe my couenant, then ye shalbe my chiefe treasure aboue all people, though all the earth be mine.

⁶ Yee shall be vnto mee also a kingdome of Priestes, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speake vnto the children of Israel.

⁷ Moses then came & called for the Elders of the people, and proposed vnto them all these things, which the Lord commanded him.

⁸ And the people answered all together, and sayd, All that the Lord hath commaunded, we will doe; Moses reported the wordes of the people vnto the Lord.

⁹ And the Lord sayd vnto Moses, Lo, I come vnto thee in a thicke cloude, that the people may heare, whiles I talke with thee, and that they may also beleeue thee for euer. (for Moses had tolde the wordes of the people vnto the Lord)

¹⁰ And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, andTeach them to be pure in heart, as they show themselves outwardly clean by washing.sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,

¹¹ And let them be ready on the third day: for the thirde day the Lorde will come downe in the sight of all the people vpon mount Sinai:

¹² And thou shalt set markes vnto the people rounde about, saying, Take heede to your selues that ye goe not vp the mount, nor touche the border of it: whosoeuer toucheth the mount, shall surely die.

¹³ No hand shall touche it, but he shalbe stoned to death, or striken through with darts: whether it be beast or man, he shal not liue: when the horne bloweth long, they shal come vp into the mountaine.

¹⁴ Then Moses went downe from ye mount vnto the people, and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.

¹⁵ And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at [your]But give yourselves to prayer and abstinence, that you may at this time attend only upon the Lord, (1Co_7:5).wives.

¹⁶ And the thirde day, when it was morning, there was thunders and lightnings, and a thicke cloude vpon the mount, and the sounde of the trumpet exceeding loude, so that all the people, that was in the campe, was afrayde.

¹⁷ Then Moses brought the people out of the tents to meete with God, and they stoode in the nether part of the mount.

¹⁸ And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountGod used these fearful signs, that his law would be held in greater reverence, and his majesty even more feared.quaked greatly.

¹⁹ And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by aHe gave authority to Moses by plain words, that the people might understand him.voice.

²⁰ (For the Lorde came downe vpon mount Sinai on the toppe of the mount) and when the Lord called Moses vp into the top of the mount, Moses went vp.

²¹ Then the Lord said vnto Moses, Go down, charge the people, that they breake not their boundes, to go vp to the Lord to gaze, least many of them perish.

²² And let the Priestes also which come to the Lorde be sanctified, least the Lorde destroy them.

²³ And Moses sayde vnto the Lord, The people can not come vp into the mount Sinai: for thou hast charged vs, saying, Set markes on the mountaine, and sanctifie it.

²⁴ And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not theNeither dignity nor multitude have authority to pass the bounds that God's word prescribes.priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them.

²⁵ So Moses went downe vnto the people, & tolde them.