Exodus 24:11

But God did not lay His hand on the nobles of Israel; they saw Him, and they ate and drank.

Majority Standard Bible

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 saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.

12Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

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Cross References

Genesis 18:18Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

Genesis 32:24So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

Exodus 18:12Then Moses’ father-in-law Jethro brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law in the presence of God.

Exodus 24:1Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you are to worship at a distance.

Exodus 33:20But He added, “You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live.”

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

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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