Exodus 24:2

And Moses alone shall come near the Lord,.... Into the cloud where he was, and talk with him face to face, as a man talketh with his friend; which was great nearness indeed, and a peculiar favour and…

Are placed by some with great probability between Exo 24:8-9.

Moses alone shall come near - The people stood at the foot of the mountain. Aaron and his two sons and the seventy elders went up, probably about half way, and Moses alone went to the summit.

The first two verses record the appointment of a second session upon mount Sinai, for the making of laws, when an end was put to the first. When a communion is begun between God and us, it shall never…

they (emph.)] Aaron, his two sons, and the elders.

neither, &c. Observe the gradation: the people generally are to remain at the foot of the mountain; Aaron, his two sons, and the elders come partly…