Exodus 19:11

Be ready for the third day, for on the third day Yahweh will come down to Mount Sinai.

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In The King James Version

And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

In Context

10Yahweh said to Moses, “Go to the people. Today and tomorrow you must set them apart to me, and make them wash their garments.

12You must set boundaries all around the mountain for the people. Say to them, 'Be careful that you do not go up the mountain or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain will surely be put to death.'

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Cross References

Exodus 3:8I have come down to free them from the Egyptians' power and to bring them up from that land to a good, large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Exodus 19:18Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke because Yahweh descended on it in fire and smoke. The smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.

Exodus 24:16Yahweh's glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called to Moses from within the cloud.

Exodus 34:5Yahweh came down in the cloud and stood with Moses there, and he pronounced the name “Yahweh.”

Deuteronomy 4:10On the day that you stood before Yahweh your God at Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, 'Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.'

Psalms 18:9He opened the heavens and came down, and thick darkness was under his feet. 1

Matthew Henry on Exodus 19:10-16

The Approach of God Announced. ( b. c. 1491.) 9 And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the Lord . 10 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes, 11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon Mount Sinai. 12 And thou… Read the whole commentary →

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