他们离了利非订，来到西奈的旷野，就在那里的山下安营。
For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.
我向埃及人所行的事，你们都看见了，且看见我如鹰将你们背在翅膀上，带来归我。
Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
如今你们若实在听从我的话，遵守我的约，就要在万民中作属我的子民，因为全地都是我的。
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
耶和华又对摩西说，你往百姓那里去，叫他们今天明天自洁，又叫他们洗衣服。
And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
你要在山的四围给百姓定界限，说，你们当谨慎，不可上山去，也不可摸山的边界，凡摸这山的，必要治死他。
And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:
不可用手摸他，必用石头打死，或用箭射透，无论是人是牲畜，都不得活。到角声拖长的时候，他们才可到山根来。
There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
摩西下山往百姓那里去，叫他们自洁，他们就洗衣服。
And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
他对百姓说，到第三天要预备好了。不可亲近女人。
And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.
到了第三天早晨，在山上有雷轰，闪电，和密云，并且角声甚大，营中的百姓尽都发颤。
And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
西奈全山冒烟，因为耶和华在火中降于山上。山的烟气上腾，如烧窑一般，遍山大大地震动。
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.