Exodus 19:12

New American Bible - revised edition

Set limits for the people all around, saying: Take care not to go up the mountain, or even to touch its edge. All who touch the mountain must be put to death.

Cross References

Exodus 10:28

Pharaoh said to Moses, “Leave me, and see to it that you do not see my face again! For the day you do see my face you will die!”

Exodus 19:21

Then the Lord told Moses: Go down and warn the people not to break through to the Lord in order to see him; otherwise many of them will be struck down.

Exodus 19:23

But Moses said to the Lord, “The people cannot go up to Mount Sinai, for you yourself warned us, saying: Set limits around the mountain to make it sacred.”

Exodus 24:2

Moses alone is to come close to the Lord; the others shall not come close, and the people shall not come up with them.

Exodus 34:12

Take care not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land that you are to enter; lest they become a snare among you.

Exodus 34:3

No one shall come up with you, and let no one even be seen on any part of the mountain; even the sheep and the cattle are not to graze in front of this mountain.”

Deuteronomy 2:4

Command the people: You are now about to pass through the territory of your relatives, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. Though they are afraid of you, be very careful

Deuteronomy 4:9

However, be on your guard and be very careful not to forget the things your own eyes have seen, nor let them slip from your heart as long as you live, but make them known to your children and to your children’s children,

Hebrews 12:18

You have not approached that which could be touched and a blazing fire and gloomy darkness and storm

Joshua 3:4

that you may know the way to take, for you have not gone over this road before. But let there be a space of two thousand cubits between you and the ark: do not come nearer to it.”