Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Exodus 19:13
Touch it - Rather “touch him.” The person who had touched the mount was not to be touched, since the contact would be pollution.
Touch it - Rather “touch him.” The person who had touched the mount was not to be touched, since the contact would be pollution.
Verse Exodus 19:13. _THERE SHALL NOT A HAND TOUCH IT_] בו _bo_, HIM, not the _mountain_, but the _man_ who had presumed to touch the mountain. He should be considered altogether as an unclean and acc...
EXODUS 19. AWFUL REVELATION OF GOD IN FIRE AND CLOUD. Exodus 19:1 a P, Exodus 19:2 b - Exodus 19:3 a E, Exodus 19:3 b -...
IT. him: i.e. not arrested or seized lest trespass on mount incurred. SURELY BE STONED. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6). Compare Genesis 26:28....
WHOSOEVER TOUCHETH THE MOUNT, &C.— Houbigant, from the Samaritan, renders the first part of the 12th verse, _Thou shalt set bounds round about the mountain, and shalt command the people, saying,_ &c....
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 19 In the third month after the children of Is-ra-el were gone forth out of the land of E-gypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Si-nai. (2) And when they w...
_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._...
19:13 soundeth, (b-36) See Note Leviticus 25:10 ....
PREPARATION FOR THE GIVING OF THE LAW 1. The same day] the 15th day of the month: cp. Exodus 12:18; Exodus 12:29; Exodus 16:1. Marching slowly, with long halts at the various stations on the route, th...
THEY SHALL COME UP] not the mass of the people, but their privileged representatives: see Exodus 19:23, and cp. Exodus 24:1; Exodus 24:2. 22 THE PRIESTS] The Levitical priesthood was not yet institute...
EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF EXODUS Exodus is one of the first 5 books of the *Old Tes...
THERE SHALL NOT AN HAND TOUCH IT. — This translation gives an entirely wrong sense. The meaning is, beyond all doubt, “There shall not a hand touch _him,” i.e.,_ the transgressor. To stop him and seiz...
לֹא ־תִגַּ֨ע בֹּ֜ו יָ֗ד כִּֽי ־סָקֹ֤ול יִסָּק
MOSES RECEIVES JEHOVAH'S WORDS IN THE MOUNT Exodus 19:1 The plain beneath Sinai, where Israel encamped, has been identified, and the reader should study the books of travelers which afford a mental c...
Here we begin the third great movement in the Book of Exodus. We have seen the people in bondage and have observed them being delivered from that bondage and guided by Jehovah. However, they were stil...
Him. In detestation of his impiety, which has made him unclean. (Haydock) --- Go up into the precincts of the mountain, to which Moses conducted them; (ver. 17. 21,) or they might ascend after the tru...
Deuteronomy 33:2. The trumpet perhaps was by the ministry of angels. Revelation 8:6. Hence the law is spoken of as given by the disposition of angels. Acts 7:53....
"In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...
13._There shall not a hand touch it. _(215) They ignorantly pervert the meaning who resolve the particle ב, be, into the adversative else; as if Moses forbade them to touch the mountain with the hand,...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. But having thus terminated the course of grace, the scene changes entirely. They do not keep the feast on the mountain, whither God, as He had...
THERE SHALL NOT A HAND TOUCH IT,.... The mountain or the border of it, which is repeated that it might be taken notice of; and to show that it would be resented if they were to stretch out their hand...
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. Ver...
_When the trumpet soundeth long_ Then let them take their places at the foot of the mount. Never was so great a congregation called together and _preached_ to at once as this was here. No one man's vo...
1 The people come to Sinai. 3 Gods message by Moses vnto the people out of the mount. 8 The peoples answere returned againe. 10 The people are prepared against the third day. 12 The mountaine must...
There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; being on the other side of the fence, such a person could not be apprehended without making him that attempted to seize...
THE SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS...
SECOND DIVISION: MOSES AND SINAI. FOUNDATION IN THE LARGER SENSE Exodus 19-31 FIRST SECTION The Arrival at Sinai and the Preparation for the Giving of the Law. The Covenant People and Covenant King...
A CONDITIONAL PROMISE (vs.1-6) Chapter 19 begins the second great division of the book of Exodus. God's deliverance of Israel from Egypt has been fully accomplished though they are still in the wilde...
TRUMPET: Or, Cornet...
9-15 The solemn manner in which the law was delivered, was to impress the people with a right sense of the Divine majesty. Also to convince them of their own guilt, and to show that they could not st...
THERE SHALL NOT AN HAND TOUCH IT, i.e. the mountain. But, 1. This seems to be a gross tautology, for it was twice forbidden in the words next foregoing. 2. So the word _hand_ would seem to be ascribe...
We have now arrived at a most momentous point in Israel's history. We are called to behold them standing at the foot of "the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire." The fair millennia...
Exodus 19:13 hand H3027 touch H5060 (H8799) surely H5619 (H8800) stoned H5619 (H8735) or H176 shot...
THE PEOPLE ARE TO PREPARE FOR WHAT YAHWEH IS GOING TO DO (EXODUS 19:10). This passage is also based on a chiastic construction as follows: a Moses is told to prepare the people so that they will be...
CONTENTS: Israel at Sinai and the preparation for receiving the law. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CONCLUSION: Humble reverence should possess the minds of those who draw near to God for we are sin...
Exodus 19:1. _The third month._ On the fourteenth day at night the paschal lamb was slain. The two months contain sixty days, and on the fourth day of the third month the law was given, or the sixty f...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 19:1 Covenant at Sinai. The second half of Exodus 1:1 focuses on the events at Mount Sinai and the content of the law revealed to Moses....
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 19:10 Through the instructions to CONSECRATE the people and to SET LIMITS, the Lord is preparing Israel for the worship that will occur in the tabernacle (see...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 19:7_ The subject of this paragraph is God’s revelation of Himself,—the call to receive it, the manner in which it was made. I. WHEN GOD REVEALS HIMSELF MAN...
EXPOSITION THE PREPARATION OF THE PEOPLE AND OF THE MOUNTAIN FOR THE MANIFESTATION OF GOD UPON IT. The people having accepted God's terms, the time had come for the revelation in all its fulness of th...
Now in the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, in the same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. For they were departed from Rephidim, and they wer...
whether Exodus 21:28 Exodus 21:29 Leviticus 20:15 Leviticus 20:16 when the trumpet, or cornet...
VISIONS OF GOD Exodus 19:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Going forth out of Egypt. Our study for today opens with the words: "In the third month, when the Children of Israel were gone forth out of the land...
When the trumpet soundeth long — Then let them take their places at the foot of the mount. Never was so great a congregation called together and preached to at once as this was here. No one man's voic...