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24 So Moses obeyed the voyce of his father in law, to death, or striken through with darts: whether
and did all that he had sayd: 25 And Moses chose it be beast or man, he shall not liue: when the
men of courage out of all Israel, and made them horne bloweth long, they shall come vp into the
heads ouer the people, rulers ouer thousandes, mountaine. 14 Then Moses went downe from
rulers ouer hundreths, rulers ouer fifties, and ye mount vnto the people, and sanctified the
rulers ouer tennes. 26 And they iudged the people people, and they washed their clothes. 15 And he
at all seasons, but they brought the hard causes said vnto the people, Be ready on the third day,
vnto Moses: for they iudged all small matters and come not at your wiues. 16 And the thirde
themselues. 27 Afterward Moses let his father in day, when it was morning, there was thunders
law depart, and he went into his countrey. and lightnings, and a thicke cloude vpon the
mount, and the sounde of the trumpet exceeding
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1 In the third moneth, after the children of Is- campe, was afrayde. 17 Then Moses brought the
rael were gone out of the lande of Egypt, the same people out of the tents to meete with God, and
day came they into the wildernes of Sinai. 2 For they stoode in the nether part of the mount.
they departed from Rephidim, and came to the 18 And mount Sinai was all on smoke, because
desart of Sinai, and camped in the wildernesse: the Lord came downe vpon it in fire, and the
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euen there Israel camped before the mount. But smoketherof ascended, as the smoke of a fornace,
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And
and all the mount trembled exceedingly.
Moses went vp vnto God, for ye Lord had called when the sound of the trumpet blew long, and
out of the mount vnto him, saying, Thus shalt waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God
thou say to the house of Iaakob, and tell the answered him by voyce. 20 (For the Lord came
children of Israel, Ye haue seene what I did vnto
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the Egyptians, and how I caryed you vpon eagles downe vpon mount Sinai on the toppe of the
wings, and haue brought you vnto me. 5 Now mount) and when the Lord called Moses vp into
therefore if ye wil heare my voyce in deede, and the top of the mount, Moses went vp. 21 Then
keepe my couenant, then ye shalbe my chiefe the Lord said vnto Moses, Go down, charge the
treasure aboue all people, though all the earth be people, that they breake not their boundes, to
mine. 6 Yee shall be vnto mee also a kingdome go vp to the Lord to gaze, least many of them
of Priestes, and an holy nation. These are the perish. 22 And let the Priestes also which come
words which thou shalt speake vnto the children to the Lord be sanctified, least the Lord destroy
of Israel. 7 Moses then came and called for the them. 23 And Moses sayde vnto the Lord, The
Elders of the people, and proposed vnto them all people can not come vp into the mount Sinai: for
these things, which the Lord commanded him. thou hast charged vs, saying, Set markes on the
8 And the people answered all together, and sayd, mountaine, and sanctifie it. 24 And the Lord sayd
All that the Lord hath commanded, we will doe. vnto him, Go, get thee downe, and come vp, thou,
And Moses reported the wordes of the people and Aaron with thee: but let not the Priestes and
vnto the Lord. 9 And the Lord sayd vnto Moses, the people breake their boundes to come vp vnto
Lo, I come vnto thee in a thicke cloude, that the the Lord, least he destroy them. 25 So Moses went
people may heare, whiles I talke with thee, and downe vnto the people, and tolde them.
that they may also beleeue thee for euer. (for
Moses had tolde the wordes of the people vnto 20
the Lord) 10 Moreouer, the Lord sayd vnto Moses, 1 Then God spake all these wordes, saying, I
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Goe to the people, and sanctifie them to day and am the Lord thy God, which haue brought thee
to morow, and let them wash their clothes. 11 And out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
let them be ready on the third day: for the thirde bondage. 3 Thou shalt haue none other Gods
day the Lord will come downe in the sight of before me. 4 Thou shalt make thee no grauen
all the people vpon mount Sinai: 12 And thou image, neither any similitude of things that are
shalt set markes vnto the people rounde about,
saying, Take heede to your selues that ye goe in heauen aboue, neither that are in the earth
beneath, nor that are in the waters vnder the
not vp the mount, nor touche the border of it: earth. 5 Thou shalt not bowe downe to them,
whosoeuer toucheth the mount, shall surely die. neither serue them: for I am the Lord thy God,
13 No hand shall touche it, but he shalbe stoned a ielous God, visiting the iniquitie of the fathers