Exodus 24:2

New English Translation

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

Cross References

Exodus 19:12

You must set boundaries for the people all around, saying, ‘Take heed to yourselves not to go up on the mountain nor touch its edge. Whoever touches the mountain will surely be put to death!

Exodus 20:21

The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

Exodus 24:1

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

Exodus 24:13

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

Exodus 24:15

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

Exodus 24:18

Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 24:3

Moses came and told the people all the Lord’s words and all the decisions. All the people answered together, “We are willing to do all the words that the Lord has said,”

Jeremiah 30:21

One of their own people will be their leader. Their ruler will come from their own number. I will invite him to approach me, and he will do so. For no one would dare approach me on his own. I, the Lord, affirm it!

Jeremiah 49:19

“A lion coming up from the thick undergrowth along the Jordan scatters the sheep in the pastureland around it. So too I will chase the Edomites off their land. Then I will appoint over it whomever I choose. For there is no one like me, and there is no one who can call me to account. There is no ruler who can stand up against me.

Numbers 16:5

Then he said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning the Lord will make known who are his, and who is holy. He will cause that person to approach him; the person he has chosen he will cause to approach him.

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands – the representation of the true sanctuary – but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.