Exodus 19:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people not to break through to see the Lord; otherwise many of them will perish.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ 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

²¹ 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)

²¹ 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

²¹ 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

²¹ 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.

Exodus 19:21 Cross References

1 Samuel 6:19

The descendants of Jeconiah did not rejoice with the people of Beth-shemesh when they greeted the ark of the Lord, and he killed seventy men of them. The people mourned because the Lord had made a great slaughter among the people.

Exodus 3:5

Then he said, “Come no closer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is better than the sacrifice offered by fools, for they do not know how to keep from doing evil.

Exodus 33:20

But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one shall see me and live.”

Exodus 3:3

Then Moses said, “I must turn aside and look at this great sight and see why the bush is not burned up.”

Numbers 4:20

But the Kohathites must not go in to look on the holy things even for a moment, or they will die.”

Deuteronomy 5:5

(At that time I was standing between the Lord and you to declare to you the word of the Lord, for you were afraid because of the fire and did not go up the mountain.) And he said:

Numbers 4:15

When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that the Kohathites shall come to carry these, but they must not touch the holy things, or they will die. These are the things of the tent of meeting that the Kohathites are to carry.

Numbers 4:18

“You must not let the tribe of the clans of the Kohathites be destroyed from among the Levites.

Numbers 4:19

This is how you shall deal with them in order that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and assign each to a particular task or burden.