# Exodus 19

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/exodus/19

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. In the third month after the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, on that very day, they came to the wilderness of Sinai.
2. They had set out from Rephidim, and when they came to the wilderness of Sinai, they camped in the wilderness. Israel camped there in front of the mountain.
3. Then Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him from the mountain, “This is what you are to say to the house of Jacob and tell the Israelites:
4. ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.
5. Now if you will truly obey my voice and keep my covenant, you will be my treasured possession out of all the peoples, for the whole earth is mine.
6. You will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”
7. So Moses came and summoned the elders of the people and set before them all these words that Yahweh had commanded him.
8. All the people answered together, “We will do everything Yahweh has said.” And Moses brought the people’s words back to Yahweh.
9. Yahweh said to Moses, “I am going to come to you in a thick cloud, so that the people will hear when I speak with you and will also trust you forever.” Then Moses told Yahweh what the people had said.
10. Yahweh said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. Have them wash their clothes,
11. and be ready by the third day, because on the third day Yahweh will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
12. Set limits for the people all around, and tell them, ‘Be careful not to go up the mountain or touch its edge. Whoever touches the mountain must be put to death.
13. No hand is to touch that person; he must be stoned or shot with arrows. Whether animal or human, it must not live.’ When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast, they may go up to the mountain.”
14. So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.
15. He said to the people, “Be ready by the third day. Do not have relations with a woman.”
16. On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, a thick cloud on the mountain, and a very loud blast of a ram’s horn, and all the people in the camp trembled.
17. Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain.
18. Mount Sinai was completely covered in smoke, because Yahweh had come down on it in fire. Its smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.
19. As the sound of the ram’s horn grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him with thunder.
20. Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain, and Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
21. Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people not to force their way through to Yahweh to look, or many of them will die.
22. Even the priests who come near to Yahweh must consecrate themselves, or Yahweh will break out against them.”
23. Moses said to Yahweh, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, because you yourself warned us, ‘Set limits around the mountain and make it holy.’”
24. Yahweh said to him, “Go down, and then come up, you and Aaron with you. But the priests and the people must not force their way through to come up to Yahweh, or he will break out against them.”
25. So Moses went down to the people and told them.

## Nearby chapters

[Exodus 18](https://www.lumin.faith/read/exodus/18.md)
[Exodus 20](https://www.lumin.faith/read/exodus/20.md)

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