3 Moses came and told the people all the Lord’s words and all the case laws. All the people answered in unison, "Everything that the Lord has said we will do."
4 Moses then wrote down all the Lord’s words. He got up early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain. He set up twelve sacred stone pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
5 He appointed certain young Israelite men to offer entirely burned offerings and slaughter oxen as well-being sacrifices to the Lord.
6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in large bowls. The other half of the blood he threw against the altar.
7 Then he took the covenant scroll and read it out loud for the people to hear. They responded, "Everything that the Lord has said we will do, and we will obey."
8 Moses then took the blood and threw it over the people. Moses said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord now makes with you on the basis of all these words."
9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy elders of Israel went up,