19:1In the third month of the going out of Israel from the land of Egypt, on this day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. 19:2For having set out from Rephidim, and arriving as far as the desert of Sinai, they encamped in the same place, and there Israel pitched its tents opposite the mountain. 19:3But Moses went up to God: and the Lord called him from the mountain, and said: "These things you will say to the house of Jacob, and you will announce to the sons of Israel: 'You yourselves 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.
19:5If therefore you hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you will be to me a special possession out of all peoples: for all the earth is mine: and you will be to me a priestly kingdom, and a holy nation.' 19:6These are the words which you will speak to the sons of Israel." 19:7Moses came: and, the elders of the people having been called together, he set out all the words which the Lord had commanded. 19:8And all the people answered together: "All the things which the Lord has spoken, we will do." 19:8And when Moses had reported the words of the people to the Lord, the Lord said to him: "Right now I will come to you in the darkness of a cloud, so that the people may hear me speaking to you, and may believe you for ever."
19:9So Moses reported the words of the people to the Lord. 19:10And he said to him: "Go to the people, and sanctify them today, and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments. 19:11And let them be ready for the third day: for on the third day the Lord will come down before all the common people upon Mount Sinai. 19:12And you will set bounds for the people round about, and you will say to them: 'Beware that you do not go up onto the mountain, nor touch its borders: everyone who touches the mountain will die by death. 19:13A hand will not touch him, but he will be crushed with stones, or pierced through with darts: whether it is a beast, or a man, he will not live: when the trumpet begins to sound, then let them go up onto the mountain.'"
19:14And Moses came down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified it. 19:14And when they had washed their garments, he said to them: "Be ready for the third day, and do not come near your wives." 19:16And already the third day had come, and the morning had grown bright: and look, thunders began to be heard, and lightnings to flash, and a very thick cloud to cover the mountain, and the blast of the trumpet was sounding more violently: and the people which was in the camp was afraid. 19:17And when Moses had led them out to meet God from the place of the camp, they stood at the foot of the mountain.
19:18And all Mount Sinai was smoking, because the Lord had come down upon it in fire: and the smoke was going up from it as from a furnace, and all the mountain was terrible. 19:19And the sound of the trumpet was little by little growing greater, and was being drawn out longer: Moses was speaking, and God was answering him. 19:20And the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, on the very top of the mountain, and called Moses to its summit. 19:20And when he had gone up there, he said to him: "Go down, and charge the people: lest perhaps it wish to pass beyond the bounds to see the Lord, and a very great multitude of them perish.
19:22The priests also who come near to the Lord, let them be sanctified, lest he strike them." 19:23And Moses said to the Lord: "The common folk will not be able to go up onto Mount Sinai: for you have testified, and ordered, saying: 'Set bounds around the mountain, and sanctify it.'" 19:24To him the Lord said: "Go, go down: and you will come up, and Aaron with you: but let the priests and the people not pass the bounds, nor go up to the Lord, lest perhaps he kill them." 19:25And Moses went down to the people, and told them everything.