Exodus 24:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² Moses alone shall come near the Lord, but the others shall not come near, and the people shall not come up with him.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Moses alone shall come near the Lord; the others shall not come near, and neither shall the people come up with him.

American Standard Version (1901)

² and Moses alone shall come near unto Jehovah; but they shall not come near; neither shall the people go up with him.

Common English Bible

² Only Moses may come near to the LORD. The others shouldn’t come near, while the people shouldn’t come up with him at all.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And only Moses will ascend to the Lord, and these shall not approach. Neither shall the people ascend with him."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And Moses alone shall come up to the Lord; but they shall not come nigh: neither shall the people come up with him.

Exodus 24:2 Cross References

Exodus 19:12

You shall set limits for the people all around, saying, ‘Be careful not to go up the mountain or to touch the edge of it. Any who touch the mountain shall be put to death.

Exodus 20:21

Then the people stood at a distance, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

Exodus 24:1

Then he said to Moses, “Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship at a distance.

Exodus 24:13

So Moses set out with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up onto the mountain of God.

Exodus 24:15

Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

Exodus 24:18

Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. Moses was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 24:3

Moses went and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the ordinances, and all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the words that the Lord has spoken we will do.”

Jeremiah 30:21

Their prince shall be one of their own; their ruler shall come from their midst; I will bring him near, and he shall approach me, for who would otherwise dare to approach me? says the Lord.

Jeremiah 49:19

Like a lion coming up from the thickets of the Jordan to a perennial pasture, I will suddenly chase Edom away from it, and I will appoint over it whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who can summon me? Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?

Numbers 16:5

Then he spoke to Korah and all his congregation, saying, “In the morning the Lord will make known who is his and who is holy and who will be allowed to approach him; the one whom he will choose he will allow to approach him.

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.