2And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And having an high priest over the house of God; …
And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)The first two verses record the appointment of a second session upon mount Sinai, for the making of laws, when an end was put to the first. When a communion is begun between God and us, it shall never fail on his side, if it do not first fail on ours. Moses is directed to bring Aaron and his sons, and the seventy elders of Israel, that they might be witnesses of the glory of God, and that communio…
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