Lest they break throughi.e., force their way through the barrier which Moses had erected.

To gaze, and many of them perish. — Some might have perished by the execution of the orders given in Exodus 19:13. But the allusion is perhaps rather to such a heaven-sent plague as destroyed the men of Beth-shemesh to the number of 50,070 (1 Samuel 6:19).

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