Exodus 19:15

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He said to the people,“Be ready for the third day. Do not approach your wives for marital relations.”

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  • 1 Sam 21:4-5 : 4 The priest replied to David,“I don’t have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers have abstained from relations with women.” 5 David said to the priest,“Certainly women have been kept away from us, just as on previous occasions when I have set out. The soldiers’ equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!”
  • Exod 19:11 : 11 and be ready for the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
  • 1 Cor 7:5 : 5 Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then resume your relationship, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
  • 2 Pet 3:11-12 : 11 Since all these things are to melt away in this manner, what sort of people must we be, conducting our lives in holiness and godliness, 12 while waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God? Because of this day, the heavens will be burned up and dissolve, and the celestial bodies will melt away in a blaze!
  • Exod 19:16 : 16 On the third day in the morning there was thunder and lightning and a dense cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud horn; all the people who were in the camp trembled.
  • Joel 2:16 : 16 Gather the people; sanctify an assembly! Gather the elders; gather the children and the nursing infants. Let the bridegroom come out from his bedroom and the bride from her private quarters.
  • Amos 4:12 : 12 “Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel. Because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel!
  • Zech 6:3 : 3 to the third white horses, and to the fourth spotted horses, all of them strong.
  • Zech 7:3 : 3 by asking both the priests of the temple of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies and the prophets,“Should we weep in the fifth month, fasting as we have done over the years?”
  • Zech 12:12-14 : 12 The land will mourn, each clan by itself– the clan of the royal household of David by itself and their wives by themselves; the clan of the family of Nathan by itself and their wives by themselves; 13 the clan of the descendants of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves; and the clan of the Shimeites by itself and their wives by themselves– 14 all the clans that remain, each separately with their wives.”
  • Mal 3:2 : 2 Who can endure the day of his coming? Who can keep standing when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.
  • Matt 3:10-12 : 10 Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. 11 “I baptize you with water, for repentance, but the one coming after me is more powerful than I am– I am not worthy to carry his sandals! He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire!”
  • Matt 24:44 : 44 Therefore you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

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    10The LORD said to Moses,“Go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and make them wash their clothes

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    12You 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!

    13No hand will touch him– but he will surely be stoned or shot through, whether a beast or a human being; he must not live.’ When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast they may go up on the mountain.”

    14Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.

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    16On the third day in the morning there was thunder and lightning and a dense cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud horn; all the people who were in the camp trembled.

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    2Be prepared in the morning, and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and station yourself for me there on the top of the mountain.

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    22Let the priests also, who approach the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break through against them.”

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