Exodus 19:17

The NET Bible®

Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place 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.

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.

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

¹⁶ On the third day in the morning there was thunder and lightning and a dense cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud horn; all the people who were in the camp trembled. ¹⁷ Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain. ¹⁸ Now Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a great furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently. ¹⁹ When the sound of the horn grew louder and louder, Moses was speaking and God was answering him with a voice. ²⁰ The Lord came down on Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain, and the Lord summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. ²¹ The Lord said to Moses, "Go down and solemnly warn the people, lest they force their way through to the Lord to look, and many of them perish. ²² Let the priests also, who approach the Lord , sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break through against them." ²³ Moses said to the Lord , "The people are not able to come up to Mount Sinai, because you solemnly warned us, ‘Set boundaries for the mountain and set it apart.'" ²⁴ The Lord said to him, "Go, get down, and come up, and Aaron with you, but do not let the priests and the people force their way through to come up to the Lord , lest he break through against them." ²⁵ So Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.

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
Lot looked up and saw the whole region of the Jordan. He noticed that all of it was well-watered (before the Lord obliterated Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the Lord , like the land of Egypt, all the way to Zoar.

Genesis 18:22
The two men turned and headed toward Sodom, but Abraham was still standing before the Lord .

Genesis 19:13
because we are about to destroy it. The outcry against this place is so great before the Lord that he has sent us to destroy it."

Genesis 19:14
Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were going to marry his daughters. He said, "Quick, get out of this place because the Lord is about to destroy the city!" But his sons-in-law thought he was ridiculing them.

Genesis 19:15
At dawn the angels hurried Lot along, saying, "Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!"

Genesis 19:16
When Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters because the Lord had compassion on them. They led them away and placed them outside the city.

Genesis 19:18
But Lot said to them, "No, please, Lord!

Genesis 19:22
Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there." (This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)

Genesis 19:26
But Lot's wife looked back longingly and was turned into a pillar of salt.

Genesis 19:31
Later the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere nearby to have sexual relations with us, according to the way of all the world.

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.