Scriptures

New Living Translation (NLT)

Exodus 19
²⁰ The LORD came down on the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. So Moses climbed the mountain.
²¹ Then the LORD told Moses, “Go back down and warn the people not to break through the boundaries to see the LORD, or they will die.
²² Even the priests who regularly come near to the LORD must purify themselves so that the LORD does not break out and destroy them.”
²³ “But LORD,” Moses protested, “the people cannot come up to Mount Sinai. You already warned us. You told me, ‘Mark off a boundary all around the mountain to set it apart as holy.’”
²⁴ But the LORD said, “Go down and bring Aaron back up with you. In the meantime, do not let the priests or the people break through to approach the LORD, or he will break out and destroy them.”
²⁵ So Moses went down to the people and told them what the LORD had said.
Exodus 20
¹ Then God gave the people all these instructions:
² “I am the LORD your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of your slavery.
³ “You must not have any other god but me.
⁴ “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea.
⁵ You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected—even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me.