Exodus 24:11

He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.

World English Bible Classic

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 was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.

12The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them.”

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Cross References

Genesis 18:18since Abraham will surely 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 wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.

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

Exodus 24:1He said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.

Exodus 33:20He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.”

Deuteronomy 4:33Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle 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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