Exodus 3:5

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

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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

4When the Lord saw that Moses was coming to take a look, God called to him from inside the bush, “Moses! Moses!” “I'm here,” Moses replied.

6Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Moses covered his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

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Cross References

Genesis 28:16When Jacob woke up he said to himself, “The Lord is right here, in this place, and I didn't realize it!”

Exodus 4:28Then Moses explained to Aaron everything the Lord had sent him to say and all the miracles he had ordered him to do.

Exodus 19:21and the Lord told him, “Go back down, and warn the people not to force their way across the boundary to try to come to the Lord or they will die.

Joshua 5:15The commander of the Lord's army told Joshua, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you're standing is holy ground.” Joshua did so.

Acts 7:33The Lord told him, ‘Take off your sandals, because where you are standing 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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