Exodus 19:15
He said to the people, “Be ready by the third day. Don’t have sexual relations with a woman.”
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 19:11and be ready for the third day; for on the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.
Leviticus 15:18If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.
1 Samuel 21:5David answered the priest, and said to him, “Truly, women have been kept from us as usual these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was only a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?”
Amos 4:12“Therefore I will do this to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.
Zechariah 7:3and to speak to the priests of the house of the LORD of Armies and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”
Malachi 3:2“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;
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 →