3 months after the Red Sea experience the Israelites set up camp in the Sinai Desert close to Mount Sinai. God told Moses to say to the people that they would be a unique special people for him as long as they obeyed him. Moses conveyed the message and the people committed to obeying God. So God told Moses that he should get the people to spend 2 days consecrating themselves, washing their clothes and abstaining from sex, and that on the third day God would speak to Moses audibly so that the people could hear him. God also said that nobody should touch the mountain or else they would die. Then on the third morning Mount Sinai was rocked by thunder, lightning, fire, smoke and blasts from a trumpet, because the Lord descended there and spoke audibly to Moses. So God called Moses to go up the mountain to him and then to bring Aaron up to him, but no one else could go up.
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