¹Zvino iye akati kuna Mozisi, Kwira kuna Jehovha, iwe naAroni, naNadhabhi naAbhihu, navakuru vana makumi manomwe vavaIsiraeri, mupfugame muri kure;

¹He said to Moses, “Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.

²Mozisi ngaaswedere pedo naJehovha, asi ivo ngavarege kuswedera pedo, navanhu ngavarege kukwira naye.

²Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him.”

³Zvino Mozisi akauya akaudza vanhu mashoko ose aJehovha, nezvaakanga atema zvose, vanhu vakapindura nenzwi rimwe vakati, Mashoko ose akarehwa naJehovha tichaaita.

³Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do.”

⁴Mozisi akanyora mashoko ose aJehovha, akamuka mangwanani, akandovaka aritari pasi pegomo, akamisa shongwe dzine gumi nembiri, zvakafanana namarudzi ane gumi namaviri avaIsiraeri.

⁴Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

⁵Zvino akatuma majaya avana valsiraeri vakapisira Jehovha zvipiriso zvinopiswa, nokumubayira zvipiriso zvenzombe zvokuyananisa.

⁵He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh.

⁶Mozisi akatora hafu yeropa, akariisa mumidziyo, imwe hafu akasasa paaritari.

⁶Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

⁷Akatora bhuku yesungano, akarava vanhu vachizvinzwa; ivo vakati, Zvose zvarehwa naJehovha tichazviita, tichateerera.

⁷He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient.”

⁸Ipapo Mozisi akatora ropa akarisasa pamusoro pavanhu, akati, Tarirai ropa resungano yakaitwa naJehovha nemwi pamusoro pamashoko iwaya ose.

⁸Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”

⁹Zvino Mozisi, naAroni, naNadhabhi, naAbhihu, navakuru vana makumi manomwevavaIsiraeri vakakwira.

⁹Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.

¹⁰Vakaona Mwari wavaIsiraeri; pasi petsoka dzake pakanga pakaita samabwe esafiri, zvaionekera sokudenga chaiko.

¹⁰They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire or, lapis lazuli stone, like the skies for clearness.

¹¹Asi haana kutambanudzira ruoko rwake kuvakuru ivavo vavana vaIsiraeri; vakaona Mwari, vakadya, vakamwa.

¹¹He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.

¹²Zvino Jehovha akati kuna Mozisi, Kwira kwandiri muno mugomo, ugarepo; ndichakupa mabwendefa amabwe anomurayiro nomurau wandanyora, kuti uvadzidzise.

¹²Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the tables of stone with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them.”

¹³Mozisi akasimuka naJoshua, muranda wake, Mozisi akakwira mugomo raMwari,

¹³Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.

¹⁴akati kuvakuru, Timirirei pano, kusvikira tichadzokerazve kwamuri; tarirai Aroni naHuri vanemi; ani naani ane mhaka ngaaende kwavari.

¹⁴He said to the elders, “Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them.”

¹⁵Zvino Mozisi akakwira mugomo, gore rikafukidza gomo.

¹⁵Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

¹⁶Kubwinya kwaJehovha kukagara pagomo reSinai, gore rikarifukidza mazuva matanhatu; nezuva rechinomwe akadana Mozisi ari mukati megore.

¹⁶The glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

¹⁷Kubwinya kwaJehovha kukaonekwa navana valsiraeri kwakaita somoto unopisa kwazvo, uri pamusoro wegomo.

¹⁷The appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.

¹⁸Mozisi akapinda mukati megore, akakwira mugomo; Mozisi akagara mugomo mazuva ana makumi mana nousiku una makumi mana.

¹⁸Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.