15. He said to the people, “Be ready by the third day. Don’t have sexual relations with a woman.”
16. On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud shofar; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
17. Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.
18. All of Mount Sinai smoked, because the Lord descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.