Iffael prepared to EXODUS X I X receive Gods Law. 67 3 the mountains And Mofes went up unto. God : and Jehovah called unto him out of the mountain, faying; Thu s- (haltthou fay to the houfè'of Jakob, and tell the fops of If- 4 sad. You have frene what I did unto the Egyptian, : and I have borne you ,upon Ea- gles wings, and brought you unto my felf . 5 And now, if hearkning ye will hearken unto myvoice, and keepe my covenant, then yee Mall be a peculiar trcafitreunto me above all 6 peoples ; for all the earth is mine. And you fhall be unto tne,a kingdome of Pricfts, and an holy nation : There are the words which thou (halt fpeake unto the formes of Ifrael. 7 And Mofes came , and called for the Elders of the people, and laid before their faces all there wóds which Jehovah. commanded 8 him. And all the people anfwered together, and laid; All that Jehovah bath fpoken, wee will doe: And Mofes returned the words 4 of the people unto Jehovah. And' Jehovah faid tinto Mofes, Loe I come unto thee in the thick cloud ; that the people may heare, 1 when I fpeake with thee , and may beleeve in thee alto for ever: And Mofes told the r o words of the people unto Jehovah. And Je- hovah faid unto Mofes,GQ unto the people, and fanCifie them to day and to morrow : and let them wafh their clothes. And let them be ready againfl the third day : for in the third day Jehovah will come downe, in the vies of all the people upon Mount Sinai. 12 And thou fhait let bounds unto the people round about, laying, Take heed to your felves, that ye go not up into the mountain, or touch the border of it: all that toucheth 13 the mountaine , (hall die the death. There (hall not a hand touch it, but he i(ball be flo- e ned with ftones,or (hot through with a fluor: whether it be beat} or man , it (hall not live : when the found of the trumpet is drawne long, they (hall goe up into the mountaine. 14 And Mold went down from the mountain unto the people : and he fanEtified the peo- 15 ple; and they walled their clothes. And he faid unto the people ; Be yee ready again(} the third day: come not yee nigh unto a 16 Wife. And it was its, the third day, when it was morning, that there was voices, and lightnings, and a heavie cloud upon the mountaine ; and the voice of the trumpet exceeding ftrong: and all the people that 17 read in the Canape trembled. And Mofes brought forth thepeople out of the Campe, to meet with God : and they flood at the n8 nether part of the mountaine. And mount II Sinai was all of it on a fmoke, bccaufe that Jehovah defcended upon it in fire : and the fàioke thereofafcendcd as the finoke of a furnace ; and all the mountaine trembled exceedingly. And the voice ofthe trumpet 19 was going and waxing 4rong exceedingly: Mofes fpake ; and God anfwered him by a voice. And Jehovah defcended upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mountaine: and Je- ' bováh called for Mofs upon the top of the mountaine, and Mofes went up. And Jeho- vah laid unto Moles; Go dow ne,relíifie un- to the people; left them break thoro.v unto Jehovah, to lee, and many of thetn.fzll. And the Pneus alfo, which come neere unto Je_ hovah,letthem faneoifie themfelves; left Je- hovah breake forth upon them. And Molts 3 faid unto Jehovah ; The people cannot come up unto mount Sinai : for thou haft teftified unto us, faying; Set bounds about the mountaine, and fatútifie it. And Jehovah 24 laid unto him; Goe downe, and corne up thou and Aaron with thee: but the Prietos and the people,let not them breake through to come up unto Jehovah,leil he break : orth upon them. And Mofes went downe unto 25 the people, and laid it unto them. 20 2I 22 Annatationt. * Aneth] or , new moaré ; which was the fielt ívß day of every monech among the Hebrew.> : therefore here followeth in the rime d :y, to fignife not the Morsetb oimely , brut the lint day thereof to be meant. Or (as Tome thinker) theJimedn nteaneth the third day, as it was the third mo- neth, and this was 43o. Jeerer after the promife made unto Abraham : but the covenant of the Law now given, could tint difaunull the covenant (of grace) that was confirmed of re of God, in reffi.l`i of Ch-fl, Gal. 3. r 7. Sinai] in Greche, the Holy Gholi writeth it Sine : which is a mountain in Aca- bit , lituate in the wilderneffe , called thereupon, the mildernefeoft aunt Sina,Ga1.4. z 5. AFts 7.3o. Verf 3. unto-God] the Greek Gtit h,rm;o :be morm- 3 taiseof God: the Cltaldee, into the prefcce fthewo;d of the Lord: this was Ghrilt, who is called the An- gell, Ails 7.38. the Angell ofGods Face (or prefOne) EGy63, 9. It fetntptlm that the cloud by which God condu&ed rhedt, now retied iupon that mount. See Numb. 9: 17. &c. Verf 4.yo:a]oryour fates have feene; &r. This îpeech was to prepare them to receive i odscove- nant now to be made : and the like was Cpokcn at the renewing of the covenant. Dcut.z9.z.&c. eagles wings]ro cary yen cut of your place of bon - dage,openly,Clfe!y,Ipeedily;asthe eagle dot her yongones,front their llugrifhnett. This limili- rude is more explained in Deut. 3 z. t I. And a' l'are 4
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