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These will administer justice to the people from day to day, referring graver matters to thee, but deciding for themselves all that is of less moment. Share thy burden with others, and find relief; (Exodus 18, 22)
He chose out here and there among the Israelites active men, and made them rulers of the people, with the charge of a tribe, or a hundred families, or fifty families, or ten; (Exodus 18, 25)
and these administered justice to the people day after day, referring graver matters to him, and deciding for themselves all that was of less moment. (Exodus 18, 26)
So, when Moses came back, he summoned the elders of the people, and told them what message it was the Lord had entrusted to him; (Exodus 19, 7)
whereupon the whole people answered with one voice, We will do all the Lord has said. Moses went back to the Lord with this promise from the people, (Exodus 19, 8)
and the Lord said to him, The time has come now when I mean to visit thee, wrapped in a dark cloud, so that all the people may hear me talking with thee, and obey thee without question henceforward. And when Moses had told him of the people’s promise, (Exodus 19, 9)
he said, Go back to the people, and spend to-day and to-morrow ridding them of defilement. Let them wash their clothes, (Exodus 19, 10)
and hold themselves in readiness for the third day; two days from now, the Lord will come down on to mount Sinai in the presence of all the people. (Exodus 19, 11)
So Moses went down again to the people, and rid them of defilement. First they must wash their clothes; (Exodus 19, 14)
And now the third day had come. Morning broke, and all at once thunder was heard, lightning shone out, and the mountain was covered with thick mist; loud rang the trumpet-blast, and the people in the camp were dismayed.✻ (Exodus 19, 16)
he was bidden go down again, and warn the people not to pass beyond their bounds in their eagerness to see the Lord; or it might be that a great multitude of them would incur death. (Exodus 19, 21)
Go down, the Lord said to him, and come back with Aaron alone; neither priests nor people are to go beyond their bounds, and come into the Lord’s presence, or he will slay them. (Exodus 19, 24)
