Exodus 3:5

New English Translation

God said, “Do not approach any closer! Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

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 19:21

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

Exodus 4:28

Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord who had sent him and all the signs that he had commanded him.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Be careful what you do when you go to the temple of God; draw near to listen rather than to offer a sacrifice like fools, for they do not realize that they are doing wrong.

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!

Leviticus 10:3

Moses then said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord spoke: ‘Among the ones close to me I will show myself holy, and in the presence of all the people I will be honored.’” So Aaron kept silent.

Acts 7:33

But the Lord said to him, ‘Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

Deuteronomy 23:14

For the Lord your God walks about in the middle of your camp to deliver you and defeat your enemies for you. Therefore your camp should be holy, so that he does not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.

Hebrews 12:20

For they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”

Joshua 5:15

The commander of the Lord’s army answered Joshua, “Remove your sandals from your feet, because the place where you stand is holy.” Joshua did so.

2 Peter 1:18

When this voice was conveyed from heaven, we ourselves heard it, for we were with him on the holy mountain.