Exodus 19:21

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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.

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  • 1 Sam 6:19 : 19 And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
  • Exod 3:5 : 5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
  • Exod 19:12-13 : 12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death: 13 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
  • Exod 33:20 : 20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
  • Eccl 5:1 : 1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
  • Heb 12:28-29 : 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
  • Exod 3:3 : 3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.

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    22 And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.

    23 And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.

    24 And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them.

    25 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.

  • 20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

  • 17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.

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    11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

    12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:

  • Num 4:20-21
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    20 But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.

    21 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

  • Exod 24:1-2
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    1 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.

    2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.

  • 1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

  • 7 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:

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    18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

    19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

    20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

    21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

  • Num 16:20-21
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    20 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

    21 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.

  • 14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

  • Num 16:44-45
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    44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

    45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.

  • 41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.

  • 10 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

  • Heb 12:20-21
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    20 For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:

    21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)

  • 16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

  • 23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

  • 3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;

  • 12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.

  • 9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.

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    6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.

    7 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

  • 1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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  • 3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.

  • 1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

  • 5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

  • 22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.

  • 11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

  • 1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

  • 5 For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.

  • 9 And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

  • 13 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

  • 17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

  • 1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

  • 13 Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?

  • 11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,