Exodus 24:4
Then Moses wrote down all of Yahweh's words. Early in the morning, Moses built an altar at the foot of the mountain and arranged twelve stone pillars, so that the stones would represent the twelve tribes of Israel.
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Genesis 12:7Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So there Abram built an altar to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 28:22Then this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be a sacred stone. From everything that you give me, I will surely give a tenth back to you.”
Exodus 17:15Then Moses built an altar and he called it “Yahweh is my banner.”
Exodus 20:25If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it of cut stones, for if you use your tools on it, you will have defiled it.
Exodus 34:27Yahweh said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
Numbers 17:2“Speak to the people of Israel and get staffs from them, one for each ancestral tribe, twelve staffs. Write each man's name on his staff.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 24:2-9
Israel's Acceptance of the Laws. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the Lord , thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off. 2 And Moses alone shall come near the Lord : but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him. 3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord , and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the Lord hath said will we do. 4 And Moses… Read the whole commentary →