Chapter 19

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IN the third month, when the children of Yashar'el were gone forth out of the land of Mitsrayim, the same day came they into the wilderness of Ciynai.

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For they were departed from Rephiydiym, and were come to the desert of Ciynai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Yashar'el camped before the Mount.

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And Mosheh went up unto Elohiym, and Yahuah called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shall you say to the house of Ya`aqov, and tell the children of Yashar'el;

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Ye have seen what I did unto the Mitsriym, and how I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.

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Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and guard my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

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And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak unto the children of Yashar'el.

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And Mosheh came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces את all these words which Yahuah commanded him.

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And all the people answered together, and said, All that Yahuah has spoken we will do. And Mosheh returned the words of the people unto El-Yahuah.

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And Yahuah said unto Mosheh, Lo, I come unto you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever. And Mosheh told the words of the people unto El-Yahuah.

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And Yahuah said unto Mosheh, Go unto the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes,

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And be ready against the third day: for the third day Yahuah will come down in the sight of all the people upon Mount Ciynai.

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And you shall 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 touches the Mount shall be surely put to death:

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There shall not a hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the shofar sounds long, they shall come up to the Mount.

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And Mosheh went down from the Mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

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And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your women.

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And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the Mount, and the voice of the shofar exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.

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And Mosheh brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with Elohiym; and they stood at the nether part of the Mount.

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And Mount Ciynai was altogether on a smoke, because Yahuah descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

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And when the voice of the shofar sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Mosheh spoke, and Elohiym answered him by a voice.

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And Yahuah came down upon Mount Ciynai, on the top of the Mount: and Yahuah called Mosheh up to the top of the Mount; and Mosheh went up.

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And Yahuah said unto Mosheh, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto El-Yahuah to gaze, and many of them perish.

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And let the priests also, which come near to El-Yahuah, sanctify themselves, lest Yahuah break forth upon them.

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And Mosheh said unto El-Yahuah, The people cannot come up to Mount Ciynai: for you charged us, saying, Set bounds about the Mount, and sanctify it.

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And Yahuah said unto him, Away, get you down, and you shall come up, you, and Aharon with you: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto El-Yahuah, lest he break forth upon them.

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So Mosheh went down unto the people, and spoke unto them.



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