So Moses thought, ‘I must go over and look at this remarkable sight. Why isn’t the bush burning up? ’
Exodus 19:21 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The Lord instructed Moses, ‘Go down and warn the people not to break through to see the Lord; otherwise many of them will die. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The Lord said to Moses, Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to the Lord to gaze and many of them perish. American Standard Version (1901) And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto Jehovah to gaze, and many of them perish. Common English Bible The LORD said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people not to break through to try to see the LORD, or many of them will fall dead. Catholic Public Domain Version he said to him: "Descend, and call the people to witness, lest they might be willing to transgress the limits, so as to see the Lord, and a very great multitude of them might perish. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He said unto him: Go down, and charge the people; lest they should have a mind to pass the limits to see the Lord, and a very great multitude of them should perish. |
So Moses thought, ‘I must go over and look at this remarkable sight. Why isn’t the bush burning up? ’
‘Do not come closer,’ he said. ‘Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.’
But he added, ‘You cannot see my face, for humans cannot see me and live.’
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Better to approach in obedience than to offer the sacrifice as fools do, for they ignorantly do wrong.
‘Aaron and his sons are to finish covering the holy objects and all their equipment whenever the camp is to move on. The Kohathites will come and carry them, but they are not to touch the holy objects or they will die. These are the transportation duties of the Kohathites regarding the tent of meeting.
‘Do not allow the Kohathite tribal clans to be wiped out from the Levites.
Do this for them so that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy objects: Aaron and his sons are to go in and assign each man his task and transportation duty.
The Kohathites are not to go in and look at the holy objects as they are covered or they will die.’
At that time I was standing between the Lord and you to report the word of the Lord to you, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain. And he said:
God struck down the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the Lord. , He struck down seventy persons. The people mourned because the Lord struck them with a great slaughter.