Exodus 19:17

Amplified Bible

Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood and presented themselves at the foot of the mountain.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Moshe led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.

King James Version
And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.

Lexham English Bible
And Moses brought the people out from the camp to meet God, and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain.

New Century Version
Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

New English Translation
Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain.

New American Standard Bible
And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Moses brought the people out of the tents to meete with God, and they stoode in the nether part of the mount.

Legacy Standard Bible
And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

Contemporary English Version
Moses led them out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

Complete Jewish Bible
Moshe brought the people out of the camp to meet God; they stood near the base of the mountain.

Darby Translation
And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then Moses led the people out of the camp to a place near the mountain to meet God.

English Standard Version
Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain.

George Lamsa Translation
Then Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the base of the mountain.

Good News Translation
Moses led them out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

Literal Translation
And Moses caused the people to go up from the camp to meet God. And they took their stand at the lower part of the mountain.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Moses brought the people out of the tentes to mete wt God, and they stode vnder the mount.

American Standard Version
And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.

Bible in Basic English
And Moses made the people come out of their tents and take their places before God; and they came to the foot of the mountain,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses brought the people out of the tentes to meete with God, and thei stoode at the neather part of the hil.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.

King James Version (1611)
And Moses brought foorth the people out of the campe to meete with God, and they stood at the nether part of the mount.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses led the people forth out of the camp to meet God, and they stood by under the camp.

English Revised Version
And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.

Berean Standard Bible
Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne Moises hadde led hem out in to the comyng of God, fro the place of castels, thei stoden at the rootis of the hil.

Young's Literal Translation
And Moses bringeth out the people to meet God from the camp, and they station themselves at the lower part of the mount,

Update Bible Version
And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.

World English Bible
Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.

New King James Version
And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

New Living Translation
Moses led them out from the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

New Life Bible
Then Moses brought the people from among the tents to meet God. They stood at the base of the mountain.

New Revised Standard
Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God. They took their stand at the foot of the mountain.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Moses brought forth the people, to meet God out of the camp, - and they stationed themselves in the lower part of the mount,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when Moses had brought them forth to meet God, from the place of the camp, they stood at the bottom of the mount.

Revised Standard Version
Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God; and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain.

THE MESSAGE
Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God. They stood at attention at the base of the mountain.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

Contextual Overview

¹⁶So it happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunder and flashes of lightning, and a thick cloud was on the mountain, and a very loud blast was sounded on a ram's horn, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. ¹⁷Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood and presented themselves at the foot of the mountain.¹⁸Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the LORD descended upon it in fire; its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently. ¹⁹And it happened, as the blast of the ram's horn grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him with [a voice of] thunder. ²⁰The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain; and the LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and he went up. ²¹Then the LORD spoke to Moses, "Go down, warn the people, so that they do not break through [the barriers around the mountain] to the LORD to see [Me], and many of them perish [as a result]. ²²"Also have the priests who approach the LORD consecrate (sanctify, set apart) themselves [for My sacred purpose], or else the LORD will break forth [in judgment] against them [and destroy them]." ²³Moses said to the LORD, "The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, because You warned us, saying, 'Set barriers around the mountain and consecrate it.'" ²⁴Then the LORD said to him, "Go down and come up again, you and Aaron with you; but do not let the priests and the people break through [the barriers] to come up to the LORD, or He will break forth [in judgment] against them [and destroy them]." ²⁵So Moses went down to the people and told them [again about God's warning].

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 4:10, Deuteronomy 5:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:21 - the people Leviticus 9:5 - and all the congregation Deuteronomy 9:10 - all the words Deuteronomy 10:4 - in the day

Cross-References

Genesis 13:10
So Lot looked and saw that the valley of the Jordan was well watered everywhere—this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; [it was all] like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar [at the south end of the Dead Sea].

Genesis 18:22
Now the [two] men (angelic beings) turned away from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.

Genesis 19:13
for we are destroying this place, because the outcry [for judgment] against them has grown so great before the LORD that the LORD has sent us to destroy and ruin it."

Genesis 19:14
So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were [betrothed, and legally promised] to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up, get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy this city!" But to his sons-in-law he appeared to be joking.

Genesis 19:15
When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot [to hurry], saying, "Get up! Take your wife and two daughters who are here [and go], or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city."

Genesis 19:16
But Lot hesitated and lingered. The men took hold of his hand and the hand of his wife and the hands of his two daughters, because the LORD was merciful to him [for Abraham's sake]; and they brought him out, and left him outside the city [with his family].

Genesis 19:18
But Lot said to them, "Oh no, [not that place] my lords!

Genesis 19:22
"Hurry and take refuge there, for I cannot do anything [to punish Sodom] until you arrive there." For this reason the town was named Zoar (few, small).

Genesis 19:26
But Lot's wife, from behind him, [foolishly, longingly] looked [back toward Sodom in an act of disobedience], and she became a pillar of salt.

Genesis 19:31
The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is aging, and there is not a man on earth [available] to be intimate with us in the customary way [so that we may have children].

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp,.... Which was before the mountain and near it, when the above tokens were given of the divine Presence on it; as they were thrown into a panic upon the sound of the trumpet, it was, perhaps, with some difficulty that they were brought out of the camp, or persuaded to quit it; and nothing short of the presence of Moses at the head of them, to go before them, and lead them to the foot of the mountain, could have prevailed upon them to have done it:

to meet with God; who came forth in such an awful and solemn manner, as their King and lawgiver, to deliver a body of laws to them, to be the rule of their future conduct:

and they stood at the nether part of the mount; at the bottom of it, where bounds were set, and a fence made, that they should proceed no further, and yet near enough to hear what God said to Moses and to them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Out of the camp - The encampment must have extended far and wide over the plain in front of the mountain. From one entrance of the plain to the other there is space for the whole host of the Israelites.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 19:17. And Moses brought forth the people - to meet with God — For though they might not touch the mount till they had permission, yet when the trumpet sounded long, it appears they might come up to the nether part of the mount, (see Exodus 19:13, and Deuteronomy 4:11); and when the trumpet had ceased to sound, they might then go up unto the mountain, as to any other place.

It was absolutely necessary that God should give the people at large some particular evidence of his being and power, that they might be saved from idolatry, to which they were most deplorably prone; and that they might the more readily credit Moses, who was to be the constant mediator between God and them. God, therefore, in his indescribable majesty, descended on the mount; and, by the thick dark cloud, the violent thunders, the vivid lightnings, the long and loud blasts of the trumpet, the smoke encompassing the whole mountain, and the excessive earthquake, proclaimed his power, his glory, and his holiness; so that the people, however unfaithful and disobedient afterwards, never once doubted the Divine interference, or suspected Moses of any cheat or imposture. Indeed, so absolute and unequivocal were the proofs of supernatural agency, that it was impossible these appearances could be attributed to any cause but the unlimited power of the author of Nature.

It is worthy of remark that the people were informed three days before, Exodus 19:9-11, that such an appearance was to take place; and this answered two excellent purposes:

1. They had time to sanctify and prepare themselves for this solemn transaction; and,

2. Those who might be skeptical had sufficient opportunity to make use of every precaution to prevent and detect an imposture; so this previous warning strongly serves the cause of Divine revelation.

Their being at first prohibited from touching the mount on the most awful penalties, and secondly, being permitted to see manifestations of the Divine majesty, and hear the words of God, subserved the same great purposes. Their being prohibited in the first instance would naturally whet their curiosity, make them cautious of being deceived, and ultimately impress them with a due sense of God's justice and their own sinfulness; and their being permitted afterwards to go up to the mount, must have deepened the conviction that all was fair and real, that there could be no imposture in the case, and that though the justice and purity of God forbade them to draw nigh for a time, yet his mercy, which had prescribed the means of purification, had permitted an access to his presence. The directions given from Exodus 19:10-15 inclusive show, not only the holiness of God, but the purity he requires in his worshippers.

Besides, the whole scope and design of the chapter prove that no soul can possibly approach this holy and terrible Being but through a mediator; and this is the use made of this whole transaction by the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, Hebrews 12:18-24.