Exodus 3:5

And He said, Approach not hither; loose the sandal from thy foot, for the place where thou standest is holy.

Targum Onkelos

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 the Lord saw that he turned to see, and the Lord called to him from the midst of the bush, and said, Mosheh, Mosheh! And he said, Behold me.

6And He said, I am the God of thy fathers; the God of Abraham, the God of Izhak, and the God of Jakob. And Mosheh bowed with his face; for he was afraid to look up to the glory of the Lord.

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Cross References

Genesis 28:16And Jakob awoke from his sleep, and said, Verily the Glory of the Lord dwelleth in this place, and I knew it not.

Exodus 4:28And Mosheh showed Aharon all the words with which the Lord had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded.

Exodus 19:21And the Lord said to Mosheh, Go down, warn the people lest they break through before the Lord to see, and many of them fall.

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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