Exodus 24:2 “Moses alone shall approach the LORD, but the others must not come near…”

Exodus 24:2

Moses alone shall approach the LORD, but the others must not come near. And the people may not go up with him.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.

World English Bible

Moses alone shall come near to the LORD, but they shall not come near. The people shall not go up with him.”

American Standard Version

and Moses alone shall come near unto Jehovah; but they shall not come near; neither shall the people go up with him.

Geneva Bible 1599

And Moses himselfe alone shall come neere to the Lord, but they shall not come neere, neither shall the people goe vp with him.

Darby Translation

And let Moses alone come near Jehovah; but they shall not come near; neither shall the people go up with him.

Young's Literal Translation

and Moses hath drawn nigh by himself unto Jehovah; and they draw not nigh, and the people go not up with him.

Bible in Basic English

And Moses only may come near to the Lord; but the others are not to come near, and the people may not come up with them.

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Cross references

“And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.”

Exodus 24:13 Exodus 24:15 Exodus 24:18 Numbers 16:5 Jeremiah 30:21 Jeremiah 49:19

Exodus 24:13 · BSB

So Moses set out with Joshua his attendant and went up on the mountain of God.

Exodus 24:15 · BSB

When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it,

Exodus 24:18 · BSB

Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Numbers 16:5 · BSB

Then he said to Korah and all his followers, “Tomorrow morning the LORD will reveal who belongs to Him and who is holy, and He will bring that person near to Himself. The one He chooses He will bring near to Himself.

Jeremiah 30:21 · BSB

Their leader will be one of their own, and their ruler will arise from their midst. And I will bring him near, and he will approach Me, for who would dare on his own to approach Me?” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 49:19 · BSB

Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who c…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you are to worship at a distance.

3When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.”

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