Exodus 24:1
He also said to Moses: “Ascend to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy elders out of Israel, and adore from a distance.
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Exodus 3:5And he said: “Lest you should approach here, remove the shoes from your feet. For the place on which you stand is holy ground.”
Exodus 19:9the Lord said to him: “Soon now, I will come to you in the mist of a cloud, so that the people may hear me speaking to you, and so that they may believe you continuously.” Therefore, Moses reported the words of the people to the Lord,
Exodus 19:24And the Lord said to him, “Go, descend. And you shall ascend, and Aaron with you. But let not the priests or the people transgress the limits, nor ascend to the Lord, lest perhaps he may put them to death.”
Exodus 24:9And Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel ascended.
Exodus 28:1“Also, join to yourself your brother Aaron, with his sons from the midst of the sons of Israel, so that they may exercise the priesthood for me: Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Leviticus 10:1And the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, picking up their censers, placed fire in them and incense upon them, offering in the sight of the Lord a strange fire, such as was not instructed of them.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 24:1
Moses, as mediator between God and Israel, having received divers laws and ordinances from God privately in the three foregoing chapters, in this chapter, I. Comes down to the people, acquaints them with the laws he had received, and takes their consent to those laws ( ver. 3 ), writes the laws, and reads them to the people, who repeat their consent ( ver. 4-7 ), and then by sacrifice, and the sprinkling of blood, ratifies the covenant between them and God, ver. 5, 6 , 8 . II. He returns to God again, to receive… Read the whole commentary →