Exodus 24:11

and He has not put forth His hand to those of the sons of Israel who are near, and they see God, and eat and drink.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.

In Context

10and they see the God of Israel, and under His feet [is] as the work of a pavement of sapphire, and as the substance of the heavens for purity;

12And YHWH says to Moses, “Come up to Me [on] the mountain and be there, and I give to you the tablets of stone, and the Law, and the command, which I have written to direct them.”

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Cross References

Genesis 18:18and Abraham certainly becomes a great and mighty nation, and blessed in him have been all nations of the earth?

Genesis 32:24And Jacob is left alone, and One wrestles with him until the ascending of the dawn;

Exodus 18:12And Jethro, father-in-law of Moses, takes a burnt-offering and sacrifices [it] for God; and Aaron comes in, and all [the] elderly of Israel, to eat bread with the father-in-law of Moses, before God.

Exodus 24:1And He said to Moses, “Come up to YHWH, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy from [the] elderly of Israel, and you have bowed yourselves far off”;

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

Deuteronomy 4:33Has a people heard the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, you—and live?

Matthew Henry on Exodus 24:10-12

A Manifestation of God. ( b. c. 1491.) 9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: 10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. 11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink. The people having, besides their submission to the ceremony of the sprinkling of blood, declared their… Read the whole commentary →

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