*On the morning of the third day, there was thunder and lightening, a thick cloud of billowing smoke, a loud trumpet blast, and the mountain trembled, very much like a volcano. The sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder. Moses spoke and the voice of God answered saying, " I am the great Oz, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain." Oops, wrong story. You must admit it was very theatrical.
*Yahweh descended to the top of mount Sinai from somewhere up above. He called Moses up to the top of the mountain. Moses went up, even though it was supposedly covered in billowing smoke. God warned Moses to warn the people that they would die if they tried to force their way through to see him. Who would kill them? Moses had to remind God that he had already ordered boundaries to be put around the mountain. Then Yahweh told Moses to go down and fetch Aaron, but the priests and the rest of the people were not to come up or he would " break out against them." Moses went back down again to tell the the Israelites what they already knew.
* Wait a minute. Where did those priests come from? Does it have anything to do with Yaweh's declaration in verse 6 that they would be a kingdom of priests?
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