And Moses said, “I will turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.”
Exodus 19:21 - Revised Standard Version And the Lord said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to the Lord to gaze and many of them perish. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The Lord said to Moses, Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to the Lord to gaze and many of them perish. American Standard Version (1901) And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto Jehovah to gaze, and many of them perish. Common English Bible The LORD said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people not to break through to try to see the LORD, or many of them will fall dead. Catholic Public Domain Version he said to him: "Descend, and call the people to witness, lest they might be willing to transgress the limits, so as to see the Lord, and a very great multitude of them might perish. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He said unto him: Go down, and charge the people; lest they should have a mind to pass the limits to see the Lord, and a very great multitude of them should perish. |
And Moses said, “I will turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.”
Then he said, “Do not come near; put off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”
But,” he said, “you cannot see my face; for man shall not see me and live.”
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know that they are doing evil.
And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry these, but they must not touch the holy things, lest they die. These are the things of the tent of meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry.
“Let not the tribe of the families of the Kohathites be destroyed from among the Levites;
but deal thus with them, that they may live and not die when they come near to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint them each to his task and to his burden,
but they shall not go in to look upon the holy things even for a moment, lest they die.”
while I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the Lord; for you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain. He said:
And he slew some of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they looked into the ark of the Lord; he slew seventy men of them, and the people mourned because the Lord had made a great slaughter among the people.