Exodus 19:21

And YHWH says to Moses, “Go down, protest to the people, lest they break through to YHWH to see, and many of them have fallen;

Literal Standard Version

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 YHWH comes down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, and YHWH calls for Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses goes up.

22and also the priests who are coming near to YHWH sanctify themselves, lest YHWH break forth on them.”

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Cross References

Exodus 3:5And He says, “Do not come near here. Cast your shoes from off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

Exodus 33:20He also says, “You are unable to see My face, for man does not see Me and live”;

Numbers 4:18“You do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathite from the midst of the Levites;

Numbers 4:20and they do not go in to see when the holy thing is swallowed, lest they have died.”

Ecclesiastes 5:1Keep your feet when you go to a house of God, and draw near to hear rather than to give of fools the sacrifice, for they do not know they do evil.

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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