Exodus 19:1

Two months to the day after they left Egypt, the Israelites arrived at the Sinai desert.

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In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.

In Context

2They had set out from Rephidim, and after they entered the Sinai desert they camped there in front of the mountain.

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Cross References

Exodus 3:12“I'll be with you,” the Lord replied, “and this will be the sign that it is really me who is sending you: when you have led the people out of Egypt, you will worship God at this very mountain.”

Exodus 12:6Keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the Israelites will slaughter the animals after sunset and before it gets dark.

Leviticus 23:16Count fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and on that day present an offering of new grain to the Lord.

Numbers 10:12The Israelites left the Desert of Sinai and moved from place to place until the cloud stopped in the Desert of Paran.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 19:1

This chapter introduces the solemnity of the giving of the law upon Mount Sinai, which was one of the most striking appearances of the divine glory that ever was in this lower world. We have here, I. The circumstances of time and place, ver. 1, 2 . II. The covenant between God and Israel settled in general. The gracious proposal God made to them ( ver. 3-6 ), and their consent to the proposal, ver. 7, 8 . III. Notice given three days before of God's design to give the law out of a thick cloud, ver. 9 . Orders… Read the whole commentary →

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