Exodus 19:21

New International Version

and the Lord said to him, “Go down and warn the people so they do not force their way through to see the Lord and many of them perish.

Cross References

Exodus 3:3

So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”

Exodus 3:5

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

Exodus 33:20

But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.”

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.

Numbers 4:15

“After Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy furnishings and all the holy articles, and when the camp is ready to move, only then are the Kohathites to come and do the carrying. But they must not touch the holy things or they will die. The Kohathites are to carry those things that are in the tent of meeting.

Numbers 4:18

“See that the Kohathite tribal clans are not destroyed from among the Levites.

Numbers 4:19

So that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons are to go into the sanctuary and assign to each man his work and what he is to carry.

Numbers 4:20

But the Kohathites must not go in to look at the holy things, even for a moment, or they will die.”

Deuteronomy 5:5

(At that time I stood between the Lord and you to declare to you the word of the Lord, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain.) And he said:

1 Samuel 6:19

But God struck down some of the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, putting seventy of them to death because they looked into the ark of the Lord. The people mourned because of the heavy blow the Lord had dealt them.