Exodus 24

Exodus 24 formally ratifies the Sinai covenant. Moses tells the people all the LORD’s words and judgments, and they answer that they will do them. Moses writes the words, builds an altar with twelve pillars, and young men offer sacrifices. Half the blood is placed on the altar and half is sprinkled on the people after the book of the covenant is read, with Moses declaring, “Behold the blood of the covenant.” Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy elders then ascend and see the God of Israel in a remarkable covenant meal scene. Moses later goes farther up the mountain into the cloud for forty days and nights to receive the tables of stone.