Exodus 24:2

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Moses alone may come near the LORD, but the others must not come near, nor may the people go up with him.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 24:13 : 13 So Moses set out with Joshua his attendant, and Moses went up the mountain of God.
  • Exod 24:15 : 15 Moses went up the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
  • Exod 24:18 : 18 Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
  • Num 16:5 : 5 Then he said to Korah and to all his company,“In the morning the LORD will make known who are his, and who is holy. He will cause that person to approach him; the person he has chosen he will cause to approach him.
  • Jer 30:21 : 21 One of their own people will be their leader. Their ruler will come from their own number. I will invite him to approach me, and he will do so. For no one would dare approach me on his own. I, the LORD, affirm it!
  • Jer 49:19 : 19 “A lion coming up from the thick undergrowth along the Jordan scatters the sheep in the pastureland around it. So too I will chase the Edomites off their land. Then I will appoint over it whomever I choose. For there is no one like me, and there is no one who can call me to account. There is no ruler who can stand up against me.
  • Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands– the representation of the true sanctuary– but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.
  • Heb 10:21-22 : 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.
  • Exod 20:21 : 21 The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 24:1
    85%

    1The Lord Ratifies the Covenant But to Moses the LORD said,“Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from a distance.

  • Exod 19:20-25
    6 verses
    82%

    20The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain, and the LORD summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

    21The LORD said to Moses,“Go down and solemnly warn the people, lest they force their way through to the LORD to look, and many of them perish.

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

    23Moses said to the LORD,“The people are not able to come up to Mount Sinai, because you solemnly warned us,‘Set boundaries for the mountain and set it apart.’”

    24The LORD said to him,“Go, get down, and come up, and Aaron with you, but do not let the priests and the people force their way through to come up to the LORD, lest he break through against them.”

    25So Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.

  • Exod 34:2-3
    2 verses
    80%

    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.

    3No one is to come up with you; do not let anyone be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks or the herds may graze in front of that mountain.”

  • Exod 24:9
    79%

    9Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up,

  • Exod 20:18-21
    4 verses
    77%

    18All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking– and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.

    19They said to Moses,“You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.”

    20Moses said to the people,“Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you so that you do not sin.”

    21The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

  • Num 4:20-21
    2 verses
    76%

    20But the Kohathites are not to go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, or they will die.”

    21The Service of the Gershonites Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 24:15
    75%

    15Moses went up the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

  • Exod 19:17
    75%

    17Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain.

  • Num 18:22
    75%

    22No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin and die.

  • Exod 24:18
    75%

    18Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

  • Exod 24:12-13
    2 verses
    75%

    12The LORD said to Moses,“Come up to me on the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandments that I have written, so that you may teach them.”

    13So Moses set out with Joshua his attendant, and Moses went up the mountain of God.

  • Exod 19:12-14
    3 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Num 16:44
    74%

    44The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 24:3
    74%

    3Moses came and told the people all the LORD’s words and all the decisions. All the people answered together,“We are willing to do all the words that the LORD has said,”

  • Exod 19:9
    74%

    9The LORD said to Moses,“I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and so that they will always believe in you.” And Moses told the words of the people to the LORD.

  • Lev 22:1
    74%

    1Regulations for the Eating of Priestly Stipends The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Lev 21:23-24
    2 verses
    73%

    23but he must not go near the special curtain or step forward to the altar because he has a physical flaw. Thus he must not profane my holy places, for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”

    24So Moses spoke these things to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites.

  • Exod 19:3
    73%

    3Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain,“Thus you will tell the house of Jacob, and declare to the people of Israel:

  • Exod 19:7
    73%

    7So Moses came and summoned the elders of Israel. He set before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him,

  • Lev 16:2
    73%

    2and the LORD said to Moses:“Tell Aaron your brother that he must not enter at any time into the holy place inside the special curtain in front of the atonement lid that is on the ark so that he may not die, for I will appear in the cloud over the atonement lid.

  • 2 Chr 23:6
    73%

    6No one must enter the LORD’s temple except the priests and Levites who are on duty. They may enter because they are ceremonially pure. All the others should carry out their assigned service to the LORD.

  • Num 14:13
    73%

    13Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–

  • Lev 9:5
    73%

    5So they took what Moses had commanded to the front of the Meeting Tent and the whole congregation presented them and stood before the LORD.

  • Lev 24:13
    73%

    13Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 34:34
    72%

    34But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he came out. Then he would come out and tell the Israelites what he had been commanded.

  • Num 14:42
    72%

    42Do not go up, for the LORD is not among you, and you will be defeated before your enemies.

  • Num 16:40
    72%

    40It was a memorial for the Israelites, that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to burn incense before the LORD, that he might not become like Korah and his company– just as the LORD had spoken by the authority of Moses.

  • Num 20:6
    72%

    6Moses Responds So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting. They then threw themselves down with their faces to the ground, and the glory of the LORD appeared to them.

  • Lev 9:23
    72%

    23Moses and Aaron then entered into the Meeting Tent. When they came out, they blessed the people, and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.

  • Num 25:10
    72%

    10The Aftermath The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Deut 31:16
    72%

    16Then the LORD said to Moses,“You are about to die, and then these people will begin to prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land into which they are going. They will reject me and break my covenant that I have made with them.

  • Num 17:13
    72%

    13(17:28) Anyone who even comes close to the tabernacle of the LORD will die! Are we all to die?”

  • Num 20:27
    72%

    27So Moses did as the LORD commanded; and they went up Mount Hor in the sight of the whole community.

  • Num 16:23
    72%

    23So the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 35:20
    72%

    20So the whole community of the Israelites went out from the presence of Moses.

  • Exod 40:35
    72%

    35Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.