Exodus 19:21
And LORD said to Moses, Go down, command the people, lest they break through to LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.
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Exodus 3:5And he said, Do not draw near here. Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place on which thou stand is holy ground.
Exodus 33:20And he said, Thou cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.
Numbers 4:18Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites,
Numbers 4:20but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.
Ecclesiastes 5:1Keep thy foot when thou go to the house of God, for to draw near to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools. For they know not that they do evil.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 19:17-25
The Divine Presence on Mount Sinai. ( b. c. 1491.) 16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. 17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. 18 And Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof… Read the whole commentary →