Exodus 19:21

WEB

²¹The LORD said to Moses, “Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

KJV

²¹And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

BSB

²¹and the LORD said to him, “Go down and warn the people not to break through to see the LORD, lest many of them perish.

FBV

²¹and the Lord told him, “Go back down, and warn the people not to force their way across the boundary to try to come to the Lord or they will die.

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Extra References

1 Samuel 6:19

¹⁹He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into the LORD’s ark, he struck fifty thousand seventy of the men. Then the people mourned, because the LORD had struck the people with a great slaughter.

Exodus 3:5

⁵He said, “Don’t come close. Take off your sandals, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.”

Hebrews 12:28-29

²⁸Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe, ²⁹for our God is a consuming fire.

Exodus 33:20

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

Ecclesiastes 5:1

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.

Exodus 19:12-13

¹²You shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death. ¹³No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.’ When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain.”

Exodus 3:3

³Moses said, “I will go now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”