Exodus 19:23
Moses said to Yahweh, "The people can't come up to Mount Sinai, for you warned us, saying, 'Set bounds around the mountain, and sanctify it.'"
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- Exod 19:12 : 12 You shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, 'Be careful that you don't go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.
- Josh 3:4-5 : 4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Don't come near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before." 5 Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you."
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- Exod 19:24-252 verses85%
24Yahweh said to him, "Go down and you shall bring Aaron up with you, but don't let the priests and the people break through to come up to Yahweh, lest he break forth on them."
25So Moses went down to the people, and told them.
- Exod 19:9-146 verses82%
9Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever." Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.
10Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,
11and be ready against the third day; for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.
12You shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, 'Be careful that you don't go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.
13No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.' When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain."
14Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
- Exod 19:20-223 verses82%
20Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
21Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish.
22Let the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest Yahweh break forth on them."
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2Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him."
- Exod 34:2-32 verses79%
2Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.
3No one shall come up with you; neither let anyone be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mountain."
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3Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him out of the mountain, saying, "This is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:
- Exod 19:17-182 verses79%
17Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.
18Mount Sinai, all it, smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
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1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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1Yahweh said to Moses in Mount Sinai,
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18All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.
19They said to Moses, "Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don't let God speak with us, lest we die."
20Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won't sin."
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21Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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15Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying,
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5He said, "Don't come close. Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground."
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23Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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26Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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12Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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13Moses said to Yahweh, "Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them;
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14Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
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7Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him.
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13Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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41Moses said, "Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?
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17Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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20for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned;"
21and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling."
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44Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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17Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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15Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
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11Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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10Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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11Moses commanded the people the same day, saying,
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5Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.'"
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12Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the tables of stone with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them."