Exodus 24
1 He said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.
上主以後向梅瑟說：「你和亞郎、納達布、阿彼胡，以及以色列長老中的七十人到上主那裏；你們都在遠處跪下朝拜。
2 Moses alone shall come near to the LORD, but they shall not come near. The people shall not go up with him.”
然後梅瑟一人要走近上主，別人不可走近，百姓也不准同他上山。」
3 Moses came and told the people all the LORD’s words, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words which the LORD has spoken will we do.”
梅瑟下來將上主的一切話和誡命講述給百姓聽，眾百姓都同聲回答說：「凡上主所吩咐的話，我們全要奉行。」
4 Moses wrote all the LORD’s words, then rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the base of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
梅瑟遂將上主的一切話記錄下來。第二天清晨，梅瑟在山下立了一座祭壇，又按以色列十二支派立了十二根石柱，
5 He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to the LORD.
又派了以色列子民的一些青年人去奉獻全燔祭，宰殺了牛犢作為獻給上主的和平祭。
6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
梅瑟取了一半血，盛在盆中，取了另一半血洒在祭壇上。
7 He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “We will do all that the LORD has said, and be obedient.”
然後拿過約書來，唸給百姓聽。以後百姓回答說：「凡上主所吩咐的話，我們必聽從奉行。」
8 Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you concerning all these words.”
梅瑟遂拿血來洒在百姓身上說：「看，這是盟約的血，是上主本著這一切話同你們訂立的約。」
9 Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.
隨後梅瑟、亞郎、納達布、阿彼胡和以色列長老中的七十人上了山，
10 They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.
看見了以色列的天主，看見在他腳下好像有一塊藍玉作的薄板，光亮似藍天。
11 He did not lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.
他們雖看見了天主，天主卻沒有下手害以色列的首領們，他們還能吃能喝。梅瑟獨自留在山上
12 The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them.”
以後上主向梅瑟說：「你上山到我台前，停留在那裏，我要將石版，即我為教訓百姓所寫的法律和誡命交給你。」
13 Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.
梅瑟和他的侍從若蘇厄起身上天主的山，
14 He said to the elders, “Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them.”
梅瑟巷長老們說：「你們在這裏等候我們回到你們這裏。你們有亞郎和胡爾同你們在一起。誰有爭訟的事，可到他們那裏去。」
15 Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
梅瑟上了山，雲彩就把山蓋住了。
16 The LORD’s glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the middle of the cloud.
上主的榮耀停在西乃山上，雲彩遮蓋著山共六天之久，第七天上主從雲彩爭召叫了梅瑟。
17 The appearance of the LORD’s glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
上主的榮耀在以色列子民眼前，好像烈火出現在山頂上。
18 Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
梅瑟進入雲彩中，上了山；梅瑟在山上停留了四十天，四十夜。
