Exodus 3:5

And he said: “Lest you should approach here, remove the shoes from your feet. For the place on which you stand is holy ground.”

Catholic Public Domain 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

4Then the Lord, discerning that he proceeded on to see it, called to him from the midst of the bush, and he said, “Moses, Moses.” And he responded, “Here I am.”

6And he said, “I am the God of your father: the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face, for he dared not look directly at God.

Read all of Exodus 3

Cross References

Genesis 28:16And when Jacob had awakened from sleep, he said, “Truly, the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.”

Exodus 4:28And Moses explained to Aaron all the words of the Lord, by which he had sent him, and the signs which he had commanded.

Exodus 19:21he said to him: “Descend, and call the people to witness, lest they might be willing to transgress the limits, so as to see the Lord, and a very great multitude of them might perish.

Joshua 5:15Joshua fell prone on the ground. And reverencing, he said, “What does my lord say to his servant?”

Acts 7:33But the Lord said to him: ‘Loosen the shoes from your feet. For the place in which you 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Exodus 3:5