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Exodus 3:5

And the Lord said, Nigh thou not hither, but (first) unbind thou the shoes of thy feet, for the place in which thou standest is holy land (or for the place where thou standest is holy ground).

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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

4Soothly the Lord saw that Moses went to see, and he called (to) him from the midst of the bush, and said, Moses! Moses! Which answered, I am present, (or Who answered, I am here).

6And the Lord said, I am (the) God of thy father (s), (the) God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob. Moses hid his face, for he durst not look against God (or for he dared not look at God).

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Cross References

Genesis 28:16And when Jacob had waked of [the] sleep, he said, Verily the Lord is in this place, and I knew not. (And when Jacob had awakened from his sleep, he said, Truly the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.)

Exodus 4:28And Moses told to Aaron all the words of the Lord, for which he had sent Moses (or that he had sent Moses to say); and he told (him about) the miracles, which the Lord had commanded (him to perform).

Exodus 19:21the Lord said to him, Go thou down, and witness thou to the people, lest peradventure it will pass [over] the terms to see the Lord (or lest they pass over the boundary to see the Lord), and [a] full great multitude thereof perish;

Joshua 5:15(And) He said, Unlace thy shoes from (off) thy feet, for the place, in which thou standest, is holy. And Joshua did, as it was commanded to him.

Acts 7:33But God said to him, Do off the shoes of thy feet, for the place in which thou standest is holy earth (or for the place where thou standest 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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