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New King James Version

Exodus 34:30

So when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Countenance;   Face;   God;   Miracles;   Moses;   Reverence;   Transfiguration;   Thompson Chain Reference - Face;   Light-Darkness;   Shining Faces;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Glory;   Moses;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Horn;   Moses;   Stephen;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Exodus;   Hexateuch;   Law;   Moses;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Transfiguration (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Sinai;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Covenant, the New;   Transfiguration;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Holiness;   Moses;   Moses ben Isaiah Ha-Kohen;   Tables of the Law;   Veil;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
When Aharon and all the children of Yisra'el saw Moshe, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.
King James Version
And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
Lexham English Bible
And Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, and, to their amazement, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid of coming near to him.
New Century Version
When Aaron and all the people of Israel saw that Moses' face was shining, they were afraid to go near him.
New English Translation
When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to approach him.
Amplified Bible
When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to approach him.
New American Standard Bible
So when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to approach him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Aaron and all the children of Israel looked vpon Moses, and beholde, the skin of his face shone bright, and they were afraid to come neere him)
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.
Contemporary English Version
When Aaron and the others looked at Moses, they saw that his face was shining, and they were afraid to go near him.
Complete Jewish Bible
When Aharon and the people of Isra'el saw Moshe, the skin of his face was shining; and they were afraid to approach him.
Darby Translation
And Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.
Easy-to-Read Version
Aaron and all the people of Israel saw that Moses' face was shining bright. So they were afraid to go near him.
English Standard Version
Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.
George Lamsa Translation
And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses face, behold, the skin of Moses face shone; and they were afraid to come near to him.
Good News Translation
Aaron and all the people looked at Moses and saw that his face was shining, and they were afraid to go near him.
Christian Standard Bible®
When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face shone! They were afraid to come near him.
Literal Translation
And Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses. And, behold! The skin of his face had become luminous. And they were afraid to draw near to him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And wha Aaron & all the childre of Israel sawe yt the skynne of his face shyned, they were afrayed to come nye him.
American Standard Version
And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
Bible in Basic English
But when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, and the shining of his face, they would not come near him for fear.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Aaron and all the chyldren of Israel looked vpon Moyses: and beholde, the skynne of his face shone, and they were afrayde to come nye hym.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face sent forth beams; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
King James Version (1611)
And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skinne of his face shone, and they were afraid to come nigh him.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Aaron and all the elders of Israel saw Moses, and the appearance of the skin of his face was made glorious, and they feared to approach him.
English Revised Version
And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
Berean Standard Bible
Aaron and all the Israelites looked at Moses, and behold, his face was radiant. And they were afraid to approach him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Aaron and the sones of Israel sien Moises face horned,
Young's Literal Translation
and Aaron seeth -- all the sons of Israel also -- Moses, and lo, the skin of his face hath shone, and they are afraid of coming nigh unto him.
Update Bible Version
And when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, look, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.
Webster's Bible Translation
And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come nigh him.
World English Bible
When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.
New Living Translation
So when Aaron and the people of Israel saw the radiance of Moses' face, they were afraid to come near him.
New Life Bible
When Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, they saw that the skin of his face was shining. They were afraid to come near him.
New Revised Standard
When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, and lo! the skin of his face shone, and they stood in awe of drawing nigh unto him.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Aaron and the children of Israel seeing the face of Moses horned, were afraid to come near.
Revised Standard Version
And when Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.

Contextual Overview

28 So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. [fn] 29 Now it was so, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the Testimony were in Moses' hand when he came down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him. 30 So when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him. 31 Then Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses talked with them. 32 Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them as commandments all that the LORD had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. 33 And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. 34 But whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with Him, he would take the veil off until he came out; and he would come out and speak to the children of Israel whatever he had been commanded. 35 And whenever the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone, then Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with Him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

afraid: Numbers 12:8, Mark 9:3, Mark 9:15, Luke 5:8

Reciprocal: Exodus 34:35 - General Ecclesiastes 8:1 - a man's

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing.
Genesis 12:12
Therefore it will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, "This is his wife'; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.
Genesis 13:7
And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites then dwelt in the land.
Genesis 34:5
And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter. Now his sons were with his livestock in the field; so Jacob held his peace until they came.
Genesis 34:7
And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it; and the men were grieved and very angry, because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, a thing which ought not to be done.
Genesis 34:13
But the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father, and spoke deceitfully, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.
Genesis 34:14
And they said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a reproach to us.
Genesis 34:18
And their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son.
Genesis 34:20
And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and spoke with the men of their city, saying:
Genesis 46:27
And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who went to Egypt were seventy.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses,.... Who very probably met him at the bottom of the mount; these Israelites with Aaron were the princes, as Aben Ezra seems rightly to interpret it, and as appears from the following verse; for Moses could not well be seen by the whole body of the people at once, upon his descent from the mount:

behold, the skin of his face shone; darted out rays of light and glory all around it, much perhaps in the same manner as the glory about our Lord, and others, is painted by the Romanists:

and they were afraid to come nigh him; there was something so majestic and striking in it; and perhaps they could not tell whether it foreboded good or evil to them; and this may signify, that as by the light of the law sin is discovered, it fills with a sense of wrath and fear of damnation; and being the ministration of condemnation and death, it is terrifying and killing, though it has a glory in it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 34:30. They were afraid to come nigh him. — A sight of his face alarmed them; their consciences were still guilty from their late transgression, and they had not yet received the atonement. The very appearance of superior sanctity often awes the guilty into respect.


 
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