Exodus 19:21
Adonai said to Moses [Drawn out], “Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to Adonai to gaze, and many of them perish.
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22Let the priests also, who come near to Adonai, sanctify themselves, lest Adonai break out on them.”
Cross References
Exodus 3:5He said, “Don’t come close. Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.” + 3:5. Quoted in Acts 7:33
Exodus 33:20He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.”
Numbers 4:18“Don’t cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites [Descendants of United with];
Numbers 4:20but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.” 1 Haftarah B'midar ·Taking leave· ·In the desert·: 1 Hoshea / Hosea 1:10-2:20 1 B'rit Hadashah ·New Covenant·: Luke 16:1-17:10 1 Parashah 35: Naso ·Lift up· 4:21-7:89
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 →