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301 Tablets accompanied by his brother Aaron and Aaron's two priestly sons and seventy of the tribal elders. They were not allowed to come up all the way (only Moses could do that), but close enough "to see the Elohim of Israel." Even then all they could see was the space under the Lord's feet, "made as of pure sapphire, like the color of skies in clearness." Coming that close they would have normally lost their lives; but this time, having invited them, "Yahweh against the no- bles of Israel did not put forth his hand." They were not struck down, and lived to celebrate the Divine Encounter and witness Moses going up to receive the Tablets: And Moses went up on the Mount, and the cloud enveloped the Mount. And the glory of Yahweh rested upon Mount Sinai, covered by the cloud, for six days; and on the seventh day He called unto Moses from inside the cloud . . . And Moses went into the cloud and ascended up the Mount; And Moses was on the mount forty days and forty nights. Since the two tablets had already been inscribed, the long time Moses stayed atop the Mount was used to instruct him in the construction of the Tabernacle, the Mishkan ("Resi- dence") in which Yahweh would make his presence known to the Children of Israel. It was then that, in addition to the architectural details that were given orally, Yahweh also showed Moses the "structural model of the Residence and the model of all of the instruments thereof." These included the Ark of the Covenant, the wooden chest inlaid with gold, in which the two Tablets were to be kept, and on top of which the two golden Cherubim were to be emplaced; that, the Lord explained, would be the Dvir—literally, (he Speaker—"where I will keep the appointments with thee, speaking to thee from between the two Cherubim." It was also during that Divine Encounter atop the Mount that Moses was instructed about the priesthood, naming as The Greatest Theophany