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Chapter 19  
     
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 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
  
2.
 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.
  
3.
 And Moses went up unto God, and finishing the climb he rested and fell into a deep sleep and in dream the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shall you say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
  
4.
 You have seen what happened to the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
  
5.
 Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
  
6.
 And you shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak unto the children of Israel.
  
7.
 And when Moses awoke, he climbed down the mountain and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the Lord commanded him.
  
8.
 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord has spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord.
  
9.
 And in vision and Moses prayed, the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe you for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the Lord.
  
10.
 And in vision the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
  
11.
 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
  
12.
 And you shall set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that you go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall risk death:
  
13.
 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
  
14.
 And Moses went down from the mount unto 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 wives.
  
16.
 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and fire from the heavens descending upon the mountain and then a thick cloud upon the mount, and rumblings exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
  
17.
 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
  
18.
 And mount Sinai was altogether on fire, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke of it ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
  
19.
 And when the fire had eased and the roar on the mount had departed, Moses rested and prepared for his departure to the summit.
 
20.
 And in dream the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
  
21.
 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.
  
22.
 And let the priests also, which come near to the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break forth upon them.  
23.
 And in dream Moses said unto the Lord, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for you charged us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
  
24.
 And in the dream the Lord said unto him, Away, get you down, and you shall come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth upon them.
  
25.
 So when Moses awoke he spoke unto them.
  

 
 
 

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