Exodus 19:21
The LORD said to Moses, “Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.
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Exodus 3:5He said, “Don’t come close. Take off your sandals, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.”
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;
Numbers 4:20but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.”
Ecclesiastes 5:1Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.
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 →