Exodus 3:5

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 the Lord saw that he went forward to see, he called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said: Moses, Moses. And he answered: Here I am.

6And he said: I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses hid his face: for he durst not look at God.

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Cross References

Genesis 28:16And when Jacob awaked out of sleep, he said: Indeed the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not.

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

Exodus 19:21He 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.

Joshua 5:15Josue fell on his face to the ground. And worshipping, add: What saith my lord to his servant?

Acts 7:33And the Lord said to him: Loose the shoes from thy feet, for the place wherein thou standest, 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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