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Exodus 24:1

The Lord told Moses, “Come up to the Lord—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel's elders. You are to worship at a distance.

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In The King James Version

And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.

In Context

2Only Moses may approach the Lord—the others must not come near. The people may not go up the mountain with him.”

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Cross References

Exodus 3:5“Don't come any closer!” God told him. “Take off your sandals because you're standing on holy ground.”

Exodus 19:9The Lord told Moses, “Look! I'm going to come to you in a thick cloud so the people will hear me speaking with you and as a result they will always trust you.” Then Moses reported to the Lord what the people had said.

Exodus 19:24The Lord told him, “Go down and bring Aaron back up with you. But the priests and the people must not force their way to come up to the Lord, or he will punish them.”

Exodus 24:9Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel's elders climbed up the mountain,

Exodus 28:1Have your brother Aaron come to you, along with his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. They of all the Israelites are to serve me as priests.

Leviticus 10:1Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, set light to their incense burners using ordinary fire and put in incense, and in this way offered forbidden fire in the Lord's presence, something he had not authorized.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 24:1

Moses, as mediator between God and Israel, having received divers laws and ordinances from God privately in the three foregoing chapters, in this chapter, I. Comes down to the people, acquaints them with the laws he had received, and takes their consent to those laws ( ver. 3 ), writes the laws, and reads them to the people, who repeat their consent ( ver. 4-7 ), and then by sacrifice, and the sprinkling of blood, ratifies the covenant between them and God, ver. 5, 6 , 8 . II. He returns to God again, to receive… Read the whole commentary →

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