Exodus 24:11

God did not lay a hand on the Israelite leaders. They saw God, and they ate and drank.

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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

10They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there was a pavement made of sapphire stone, as clear as the sky itself.

12Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay there. I will give you the tablets of stone and the law and commandments that I have written, so that you may teach them.”

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Cross References

Genesis 18:18since Abraham will indeed become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

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

Exodus 18:12Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat a meal before God with Moses' father-in-law.

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

Exodus 33:20But Yahweh said, “You may not see my face, for no one can see me and live.”

Deuteronomy 4:33Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?

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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