Exodus 19:1

In the third month after the sons of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.

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In The King James Version

In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.

In Context

2And when they were departed from Rephidim, and came to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness, and there Israel encamped before the mount.

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Cross References

Exodus 3:12And he said, I will certainly be with thee. And this shall be the sign to thee, that I have sent thee: When thou have brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.

Exodus 12:6And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.

Leviticus 23:16Ye shall number fifty days, even to the morrow after the seventh Sabbath, and ye shall offer a new meal-offering to LORD.

Numbers 10:12And the sons of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 19:1

This chapter introduces the solemnity of the giving of the law upon Mount Sinai, which was one of the most striking appearances of the divine glory that ever was in this lower world. We have here, I. The circumstances of time and place, ver. 1, 2 . II. The covenant between God and Israel settled in general. The gracious proposal God made to them ( ver. 3-6 ), and their consent to the proposal, ver. 7, 8 . III. Notice given three days before of God's design to give the law out of a thick cloud, ver. 9 . Orders… Read the whole commentary →

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