Moses went up Mount Sinai, and a cloud covered it.

God said, "Do not come any closer. Take off your sandals, because you are standing on holy ground.

The LORD said to Moses, "I will come to you in a thick cloud, so that the people will hear me speaking with you and will believe you from now on." Moses told the LORD what the people had answered,

The LORD came down on the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. Moses went up

The LORD replied, "Go down and bring Aaron back with you. But the priests and the people must not cross the boundary to come up to me, or I will punish them."

But the people continued to stand a long way off, and only Moses went near the dark cloud where God was.

Get ready tomorrow morning, and come up Mount Sinai to meet me there at the top.

Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon; she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

"Summon your brother Aaron and his sons, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. Separate them from the people of Israel, so that they may serve me as priests.

Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, each took his fire pan, put live coals in it, added incense, and presented it to the LORD. But this fire was not holy, because the LORD had not commanded them to present it.

Suddenly the LORD sent fire, and it burned them to death there in the presence of the LORD.

Amram had two sons, Aaron and Moses, and one daughter, Miriam. Aaron had four sons: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the leaders of Israel went up the mountain

The total number of these people directly descended from Jacob was seventy. His son Joseph was already in Egypt.

The LORD said to Moses, "Assemble seventy respected men who are recognized as leaders of the people, bring them to me at the Tent of my presence, and tell them to stand there beside you.

So Moses went out and told the people what the LORD had said. He assembled seventy of the leaders and placed them around the Tent.

Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him. He took some of the spirit he had given to Moses and gave it to the seventy leaders. When the spirit came on them, they began to shout like prophets, but not for long.

Seventy Israelite leaders were there, including Jaazaniah son of Shaphan. Each one was holding an incense burner, and smoke was rising from the incense.

After this the Lord chose another seventy-two men and sent them out two by two, to go ahead of him to every town and place where he himself was about to go.

The seventy-two men came back in great joy. "Lord," they said, "even the demons obeyed us when we gave them a command in your name!"