Exodus 3:5

And 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.”

Literal Standard Version

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

4And YHWH sees that he has turned aside to see, and God calls to him out of the midst of the bush and says, “Moses! Moses!” And he says, “Here I [am].”

6He also says, “I [am] the God of your father, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob”; and Moses hides his face, for he is afraid to look toward God.

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Cross References

Genesis 28:16And Jacob awakens out of his sleep and says, “Surely YHWH is in this place, and I did not know”;

Exodus 4:28and Moses declares to Aaron all the words of YHWH with which He has sent him, and all the signs with which He has charged him.

Exodus 19:21And YHWH says to Moses, “Go down, protest to the people, lest they break through to YHWH to see, and many of them have fallen;

Joshua 5:15And the Prince of YHWH’s host says to Joshua, “Cast off your shoe from off your foot, for the place on which you are standing is holy”; and Joshua does so.

Acts 7:33and the LORD said to him, Loose the sandal of your feet, for the place in which you have stood 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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