Exodus 24:11
Neither did he lay his hand upon those of the sons of Israel who were at a distance. And they saw God, and they ate and drank.
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Genesis 18:18since he will become a great and very robust nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?
Genesis 32:24he remained alone. And behold, a man wrestled with him until morning.
Exodus 18:12And so Jethro, the kinsman of Moses, offered holocausts and sacrifices to God. And Aaron arrived with all the elders of Israel, in order to eat bread with him in the sight of God.
Exodus 24:1He 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.
Exodus 33:20And again he said: “You are not able to see my face. For man shall not see me and live.”
Deuteronomy 4:33that a people would hear the voice of God, speaking from the midst of fire, just as you have heard it, 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 →