Exodus 3:5

And 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.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

In Context

4And when LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here I am.

6Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.

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Cross References

Genesis 28:16And Jacob awoke out of his sleep, and he said, Surely LORD is in this place, and I did not know it.

Exodus 4:28And Moses told Aaron all the words of LORD with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had ordered him.

Exodus 19:21And LORD said to Moses, Go down, command the people, lest they break through to LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

Joshua 5:15And the captain of LORD's army said to Joshua, Put off thy shoe from off thy foot, for the place on which thou stand is holy. And Joshua did so.

Acts 7:33And the Lord said to him, Put off the shoes from thy feet, for the place on which thou stand is holy ground.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 3:2-7

The Burning Bush. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. 2 And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. 3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. 4 And when the Lord saw that he… Read the whole commentary →

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