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Exodus 19:15 KJV
Exodus · chapter 19 · verse 15
And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.Exodus 19:15 · King James Version
Exodus 19:15 in context
13There 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.
14And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
15And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.
16And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
17And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- readykûwnproperly, to be erectH3559 →
- thirdshâlôwshthreeH7969 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
- comenâgashto be or come nearH5066 →
- dayyôwma day , whether literal , or figurativeH3117 →
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Here, I. God intimates to Moses his purpose of coming down upon mount Sinai, in some visible appearance of his glory, in a thick cloud (Exo 19:9);
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-15