Exodus 3:5

He said, "Do not come close. Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground."

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In The King James Version

And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

In Context

4When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, "Moses! Moses!"He said, "Here I am."

6Moreover he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob."Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.

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Cross References

Genesis 28:16Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it."

Exodus 4:28Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him.

Exodus 19:21The Lord said to Moses, "Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.

Joshua 5:15The captain of the Lord's host said to Joshua, "Take your shoes off of your feet; for the place on which you stand is holy." Joshua did so.

Acts 7:33The Lord said to him, 'Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 3:2-7

The Burning Bush. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. 2 And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. 3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. 4 And when the Lord saw that he… Read the whole commentary →

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