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Exodus 24:1-8. The covenant sealed. Moses reads the covenant from an open rolled parchment held in both hands, viewed from its blank reverse so no lettering is visible. Rough uncut stone altar beside him with two small bowls, assembly listens. A row of exactly twelve short standing stones visible across background, six on each side of Moses. All twelve stones fully inside frame. No tablets, no graphic sacrifice, Bronze Age mountain camp. Bronze Age Exodus setting, not first-century staging. One 16:9 single scene. No text or lettering.
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Exodus 24:1-8

The covenant sealed

Story guide: Moses reads the covenant and the people commit themselves.

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1Then he said to Moses, “Come up to Yahweh, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and bow down from a distance.”

2Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near, and the people shall not go up with him.

3Then Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh and all the ordinances, and all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the words that Yahweh has spoken we will do.”

4And Moses wrote down all the words of Yahweh. He rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

5And he sent the young men of the sons of Israel, and they offered up burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of bulls to Yahweh.

6Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he threw against the altar.

7Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that Yahweh has spoken we will do, and we will obey.”

8Then Moses took the blood and threw it on the people, and said, “Behold, the blood of the covenant that Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”

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