Exodus 19:12

Modern English Version

You shall set boundaries for the people all around, saying, ‘Take heed to yourselves so that you not go up onto the mountain or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain will surely be put to death.

Cross References

Joshua 3:4

There must be a distance of two thousand cubits between you and it. Do not draw closer to it, in order that you may know the way you should go, for you have not passed this way before.”

Deuteronomy 4:9

Only give heed to yourself 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, but teach them to your sons, and your grandsons.

Deuteronomy 2:4

Command the people, saying: You are to pass through the territory of your brothers, the sons of Esau, who dwell in Seir, and they shall be afraid of you. So carefully watch yourselves.

Exodus 34:12

Watch yourself so that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst.

Exodus 19:23

Moses said to the Lord, “The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for You warned us, saying, ‘Set boundaries around the mountain, and sanctify it.’ ”

Exodus 19:21

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go down, warn the people, lest they force their way to the Lord to look, and many of them perish.

Exodus 10:28

So Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me! Watch yourself, do not see my face anymore, for in the day you see my face you shall die.”

Hebrews 12:18

You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and storm,

Exodus 34:3

No one is to come up with you. Do not let anyone be seen anywhere on the mountain, and the flocks or herds may not graze in front of the mountain.”

Exodus 24:2

Moses alone shall come near the Lord, but they shall not come near, nor may the people go up with him.”