Exodus 19:22

And let the priests also, who are to minister before the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord slay them.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.

In Context

21And the Lord said to Mosheh, Go down, warn the people lest they break through before the Lord to see, and many of them fall.

23And Mosheh spake before the Lord, The people are not able to come up to mount Sinai; for Thou hast warned us, saying, Set a boundary to the mountain, and sanctify it.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:5And now, if hearkening you will hearken to My Word, and will keep My covenant, you, before Me, shall be more beloved than all peoples; for all the earth is Mine.

Exodus 24:5And he sent the firstborn sons of Israel, and they offered holocausts, and sacrificed oxen (as) consecrated victims before the Lord.

Leviticus 10:3And Mosheh said unto Aharon, This is that which the Lord spake, saying, In them who approacheth Me I will be sanctified, and in the face of all the people will I be glorified. And Aharon was silent.

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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