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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Exodus 24 In this chapter we have an account that Moses was ordered to come up to the Lord alone, Exodus 24:1, but that before he did go up, he related to the people all the above laws delivered to him, which they promised obedience to, and so a covenant was made between God and the people by sacrifice, and by the sprinkling of blood, Exodus 24:3, upon which he and Aaron, and his...
John Gill
And he said unto the elders,.... The seventy elders which were selected out of the several tribes of Israel, and now about to return to the camp: tarry ye here for us; meaning himself and Joshua, who was going with him: until we come again unto you; perhaps Moses might not know how long his stay would be at the top of the mount, but supposed it would be some time by the provision he makes for...
Matthew Henry
Moses, as mediator between God and Israel, having received divers laws and ordinances from God privately in the three foregoing chapters, in this chapter, I. Comes down to the people, acquaints them with the laws he had received, and takes their consent to those laws (ver. 3), writes the laws, and reads them to the people, who repeat their consent (ver. 4-7), and then by sacrifice, and the...