Exodus 24:1

And unto Moses he said] so the Heb. The emphasis on -Moses" implies that Jehovah had before, in a part of the narrative now lost, been speaking to someone else. The last preceding passage from J was Exodus 19:20-25, ending abruptly, in the middle of a sentence. It may be inferred that the intermediate lost parts of J contained the words -said" (Exodus 19:25) by Moses to the people, and after those some commands given by Jehovah to the people, perhaps (cf. Di., C.-H. ii. 134, McNeile, 32, Bä. XII, and the lucid statement in the Interpreter, Oct. 1908, p. 9 f.), Exodus 34:1-5; Exodus 34:10-28, in its original form (see p. 364 f.), with which the instructions now given by Him to Moses are contrasted.

unto Jehovah] Jehovah speaking of Himself in the third person, as Exodus 9:2; Exodus 19:11; Exodus 19:21-22; Exodus 19:24.

Nadab and Abihu Aaron's sons: Exodus 6:23; Exodus 28:1; Leviticus 10:1 ff.

seventy of the elders representing the people generally.

worship ye afar off in preparation, as it were, for the vision which they were to have afterwards, vv.9 11.