Exodus 19:21

He said unto him: Go down, and charge the people: lest they should have a mind to pass the limits to see the Lord, and a very great multitude of them should perish.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

In Context

20And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, in the very top of the mount, and he called Moses unto the top thereof. And when he was gone up thither,

22The priests also that come to the Lord, let them be sanctified, lest he strike them.

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Cross References

Exodus 3:5And he said: Come not nigh hither, put off the shoes from thy feet: for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

Exodus 33:20And again he said: Thou canst not see my face: for man shall not see me and live.

Numbers 4:18Destroy not the people of Caath from the midst of the Levites:

Numbers 4:20Let not others by any curiosity see the things that are in the sanctuary before they be wrapped up, otherwise they shall die.

Ecclesiastes 5:1Speak not any thing rashly, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 19:17-25

The Divine Presence on Mount Sinai. ( b. c. 1491.) 16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. 17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. 18 And Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof… Read the whole commentary →

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