Exodus 19:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹² And you shall set bounds for the people round about, saying, ‘Take heed that you do not go up into the mountain or touch the border of it; whoever touches the mountain shall be put to death;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And you shall set bounds for the people round about, saying, Take heed that you go not up into the mountain or touch the border of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:

Common English Bible

¹² Set up a fence for the people all around and tell them, ‘Be careful not to go up the mountain or to touch any part of it.’ Anyone who even touches the mountain must be put to death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And you will establish limits for the people all around, and you will say to them: 'Take care not to ascend to the mountain, and that you do not touch its parts. All who touch the mountain, shall die a death.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And thou shalt appoint certain limits to the people round about, and thou shalt say to them: Take heed you go not up into the mount, and that ye touch not the borders thereof. Every one that toucheth the mount dying he shall die.

Exodus 19:12 Cross References

Exodus 10:28

Then Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me; take heed to yourself; never see my face again; for in the day you see my face you shall die.”

Exodus 19:21

And 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.

Exodus 19:23

And Moses said to the Lord, “The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai; for thou thyself didst charge us, saying, ‘Set bounds about the mountain, and consecrate it.’ ”

Exodus 24:2

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

Exodus 34:12

Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither you go, lest it become a snare in the midst of you.

Exodus 34:3

No man shall come up with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain; let no flocks or herds feed before that mountain.”

Deuteronomy 2:4

And command the people, You are about to pass through the territory of your brethren the sons of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So take good heed;

Deuteronomy 4:9

“Only take heed, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children's children—

Hebrews 12:18

For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest,

Joshua 3:4

that you may know the way you shall go, for you have not passed this way before. Yet there shall be a space between you and it, a distance of about two thousand cubits; do not come near it.”