Exodus 24:12-18 (Vespers, 1st reading)
- 12
- Then the Lord said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and be there; and I will give you tablets of stone, and the law and commandments which I have written, that you may teach them.”
- 13
- So Moses arose with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up to the mountain of God.
- 14
- And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we come back to you. Indeed, Aaron and Hur are with you. If any man has a difficulty, let him go to them.”
- 15
- Then Moses went up into the mountain, and a cloud covered the mountain.
- 16
- Now the glory of the Lord rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
- 17
- The sight of the glory of the Lord was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
- 18
- So Moses went into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.