Exodus 34:30 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁰ When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they feared to come near him.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁰ And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.

Common English Bible

³⁰ When Aaron and all the Israelites saw the skin of Moses’ face shining brightly, they were afraid to come near him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ Then Aaron and the sons of Israel, seeing that the face of Moses was radiant, were afraid to approach close by.

Exodus 34:30 Cross References

Mark 9:3

and his clothes became dazzling bright, such as no one on earth could brighten them.

Luke 5:8

But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’s knees, saying, “Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!”

Mark 9:15

When the whole crowd saw him, they were immediately overcome with awe, and they ran forward to greet him.

Numbers 12:8

With him I speak face to face—clearly, not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the Lord. “Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

2 Corinthians 3:7

Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stone tablets, came in glory so that the people of Israel could not gaze at Moses’s face because of the glory of his face, a glory now set aside,

Exodus 34:31

But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke with them.

Ecclesiastes 8:1

Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? Being wise makes one’s face shine, but arrogance changes one’s face.