Exodus 19:3-17 And Moses went up to God; and the Lord called unto him from the mountain, and said: Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:

DouayRheims⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ And Moses went up to God; and the Lord called unto him from the mountain, and said: Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: ⁴ You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, how I have carried you upon the wings of eagles, and have taken you to myself. ⁵ If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you shall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is mine. ⁶ And you shall be to me a priestly kingdom, and a holy nation. These are the words thou shalt speak to the children of Israel. ⁷ Moses came; and calling together the elders of the people, he declared all the words which the Lord had commanded. ⁸ And all the people answered together: All that the Lord hath spoken, we will do. And when Moses had related the people's words to the Lord, ⁹ The Lord said to him: Lo, now will I come to thee in the darkness of a cloud, that the people may hear me speaking to thee, and may believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people to the Lord. ¹⁰ And he said to him: Go to the people, and sanctify them to day, and to morrow, and let them wash their garments. ¹¹ And let them be ready against the third day; for on the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people, upon Mount Sinai. ¹² And thou shalt appoint certain limits to the people round about, and thou shalt say to them: Take heed ye go not up into the mount, and that ye touch not the borders thereof: every one that toucheth the mount, dying he shall die. ¹³ No hands shall touch him, but he shall be stoned to death, or he shall be shot through with arrows: whether it be beast, or man, he shall not live. When the trumpet shall begin to sound, then let them go up into the mount. ¹⁴ And Moses came down from the mount to the people, and sanctified them. And when they had washed thelr garments, ¹⁵ He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not near your wives. ¹⁶ And now the third day was come, and the morning appeared: and behold thunders began to be heard, and lightning to flash, and a very thick cloud to cover the mount, and the noise of the trumpet sounded exceeding loud; and the people that was in the camp, feared. ¹⁷ And when Moses had brought them forth to meet God, from the place of the camp, they stood at the bottom of the mount.