Exodus 24:11
And he laid not his hand upon the nobles of the sons of Israel. And they beheld God, and ate and drank.
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Genesis 18:18since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Genesis 32:24And Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.
Exodus 18:12And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God. And Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.
Exodus 24:1And he said to Moses, Come up to LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship ye afar off.
Exodus 33:20And he said, Thou cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.
Deuteronomy 4:33Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou have heard, and live?
Matthew Henry on Exodus 24:10-12
A Manifestation of God. ( b. c. 1491.) 9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: 10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. 11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink. The people having, besides their submission to the ceremony of the sprinkling of blood, declared their… Read the whole commentary →