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.

¹立约的仪式

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

²只有摩西一人可以走近耶和华，他们却不可以亲近；人民也不可和摩西一同上来。”

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.”

³摩西下来，把耶和华的一切话和一切典章都向人民讲述；人民都同声回答，说：“耶和华吩咐的一切话，我们都必遵行。”

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.

⁴摩西把耶和华的一切话都记下了；清早起来，在山下筑了一座祭坛，按着以色列十二支派立了十二根柱子。

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

⁵又派了以色列人中的青年人去献燔祭，又向耶和华杀牛献为平安祭。

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

⁶摩西取了一半的血，盛在盆中；又取了另一半的血，洒在祭坛上。

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.”

⁷他又把约书拿过来，念给人民听；他们说：“耶和华吩咐的一切话，我们都必遵行和听从。”

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.”

⁸摩西就取了血来，洒在人民的身上，说：“看哪，这是立约的血，这约是耶和华按着这一切话与你们立的。”

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

⁹随后，摩西、亚伦、拿答、亚比户和以色列长老中的七十人都上了山。

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.

¹⁰他们看见了以色列的　神；在　神的脚下有好像蓝宝石一样晶莹的铺路，好像天色一般明亮。

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

¹¹他不伸手攻击以色列人中的显贵；他们看见　神，并且又吃又喝。

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.”

¹²摩西在西奈山上耶和华对摩西说：“你要上山到我这里来，要住在这里；我要把石版，就是我所写的律法和诫命赐给你，使你可以教导人民。”

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

¹³于是，摩西和他的侍从约书亚起来；摩西就上到　神的山那里去了。

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.”

¹⁴但摩西对长老说：“你们要在这里等候我们，直到我们再回到你们那里来。看哪！这里有亚伦和户珥与你们在一起，谁有诉讼的案件，都可以到他们那里去。”

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

¹⁵摩西上到山上，有云彩把山遮盖着。

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.

¹⁶耶和华的荣耀停在西奈山上，云彩把山遮盖了六天；第七天，耶和华从云彩中呼唤摩西。

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.

¹⁷耶和华荣耀的景象，在以色列人眼前，好像在山顶上出现烈火。

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.

¹⁸摩西进入云彩中，上到山上去；摩西在山上四十昼夜。