Exodus 19:15

New International Version

Then he said to the people, “Prepare yourselves for the third day. Abstain from sexual relations.”

Cross References

1 Chronicles 15:12

He said to them, “You are the heads of the Levitical families; you and your fellow Levites are to consecrate yourselves and bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it.

Exodus 19:11

and be ready by the third day, because on that day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

Exodus 19:14

After Moses had gone down the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.

Exodus 19:16

On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled.

Joel 2:16

Gather the people, consecrate the assembly; bring together the elders, gather the children, those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her chamber.

Leviticus 15:18

When a man has sexual relations with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both of them must bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.

Amos 4:12

“Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel, and because I will do this to you, Israel, prepare to meet your God.”

Zechariah 6:3

the third white, and the fourth dappled—all of them powerful.

Zechariah 7:3

by asking the priests of the house of the Lord Almighty and the prophets, “Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”

Malachi 3:2

But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire or a launderer’s soap.

Matthew 24:44

So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

1 Corinthians 7:5

Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.