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EXODUS CHAPTER 24
Moses, Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu are commanded to appear before the Lord, Exo_24:1. Who was to come near the Lord, Exo_24:2. Moses buildeth an altar and twelve pillars, Exo_24:4. He sends young men to sacrifice unto the Lord, Exo_24:5. He sprinkles the altar with the blood, Exo_24:6. The covenant being read, the people promise obedience, Exo_24:7. The people are sprinkled with blood, Exo_24:8. Moses and the elders of Israel see the Lord, Exo_24:9,10. God promises to give to Moses tables of stone, Exo_24:12. Moses and Joshua go up into the mount, Exo_24:13. Aaron and Hur took care for the people in the mean time, Exo_24:14. God’s glory on the mount, Exo_24:15,16; appeareth like devouring fire, Exo_24:17. Moses remains there forty days and forty nights, Exo_24:18.
After thou hast gone down and acquainted the people with my will, and received their answer, then come up again. This sense is gathered from the repetition of this command after that was done, Exo_24:12. Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu; Aaron and his two eldest sons, whom by this special honour and favour he prepared for that office to which they were to be called, Exo 28. Seventy of the elders of Israel; not the seventy governors which were chosen after this time, as appears from Num_11:16, compared with Exo_24:14; but seventy persons selected by Moses out of those rulers chosen and mentioned Exo_18:25; and possibly these were the chief heads of those several families which went with Jacob into Egypt, which were about seventy. See Gen_46:26,27. Worship ye afar off. Though they may come up into the mount further than the people, yet do thou, and let them especially, keep their distance; and what worship either thou or they shall offer to me, shall be performed afar off from the top of the mountain, whither thou only shalt be admitted, and that not to pray to me, but only to receive laws and oracles from me. See Exo_24:2.