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"You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.

"Moses alone, however, shall approach the LORD, but they shall not approach, nor shall the people come up with him."

Then Moses came and reported to the people all the words of the LORD and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words which the LORD has spoken we will do!"

And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Then he got up early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain with twelve memorial stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.

So Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words."

Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,

Yet He did not reach out with His hand against the nobles of the sons of Israel; and they saw God, and they ate and drank.

Now the LORD said to Moses, "Come up to Me on the mountain and stay there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the Law and the commandments which I have written for their instruction."

So Moses got up along with Joshua his servant, and Moses went up to the mountain of God.

But to the elders he said, "Wait here for us until we return to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a legal matter, have him approach them."

"You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and out you shall overlay it, and you shall make a gold molding around it.

"And you shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

"You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark with them.

"Make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim of one piece with the atoning cover at its two ends.

"And the cherubim shall have their wings spread upward, covering the atoning cover with their wings and facing one another; the faces of the cherubim are to be turned toward the atoning cover.

"There I will meet with you; and from above the atoning cover, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, I will speak to you about every commandment that I will give you for the sons of Israel.

"You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a gold border around it.

"And you shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that with them the table may be carried.

"You shall also make its dishes, its pans, its jars, and its libation bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold.

"Then you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand, its base and its shaft, are to be made of hammered work; its cups, its bulbs, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.