02:018:023 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then
thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to
their place in peace.
02:018:024 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and
did all that he had said.
02:018:025 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them
heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers
of fifties, and rulers of tens.
02:018:026 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes
they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
02:018:027 And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way
into his own land.
02:019:001 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.
02:019:002 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.
02:019:003 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out
of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and
tell the children of Israel;
02:019:004 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare
you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
02:019:005 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my
covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all
people: for all the earth is mine:
02:019:006 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy
nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of
Israel.
02:019:007 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and
laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.
02:019:008 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the
LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people
unto the LORD.
02:019:009 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a
thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and
believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the
LORD.
02:019:010 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and
sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
02:019:011 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.
02:019:012 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about,
saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or
touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely
put to death:
02:019:013 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.
02:019:014 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and
sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
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