Exodus 3:5

And he said—Do not draw nigh hither,—put off thy sandals from thy feet, for, the place whereon thou art standing is holy ground.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

4And Yahweh saw, that he turned aside to see,—so God called unto him out of the midst of the thorn-bush, and said—Moses! Moses! And he said—Behold me!

6And he said—I, am the God of thy father, God of Abraham, God of Isaac and God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.

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Cross References

Genesis 28:16And Jacob awoke from his sleep, and said. Surely, Yahweh was in this place, And I, knew it not.

Exodus 4:28And Moses told Aaron, all the words of Yahweh wherewith he had sent him,—and all the signs wherewith he had charged him.

Exodus 19:21Then said Yahweh unto Moses, Go down, adjure the people,—lest they press through unto Yahweh to see, and so there fall from among them a multitude.

Joshua 5:15Then said the prince of the host of Yahweh unto Joshua—Slip off thy sandals from thy feet, for, as for the place whereon thou art standing, holy, it is. And Joshua did so.

Acts 7:33And the Lord said unto him—Loose the sandals of thy feet; for, the place whereon thou art standing, is, hallowed 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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