₃and Moses went up the mountain to meet with God.

The LORD called to him from the mountain and told him to say to the Israelites, Jacob's descendants: ₄“You saw what I, the LORD, did to the Egyptians and how I carried you as an eagle carries her young on her wings, and brought you here to me. ₅ Now, if you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own people. The whole earth is mine, but you will be my chosen people, ₆a people dedicated to me alone, and you will serve me as priests.” ₇So Moses went down and called the leaders of the people together and told them everything that the LORD had commanded him. ₈Then all the people answered together, “We will do everything that the LORD has said,” and Moses reported this to the LORD.