Exodus 3:3

World English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹ Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horeb. ² The angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. ³ Moses said, I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. ⁴ When Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, "Moses! Moses!" He said, "Here I am." ⁵ He said, "Don't come close. Take off your sandals from off your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground." ⁶ Moreover he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 37:14, Psalms 107:8, Psalms 111:2-4, Acts 7:31

Reciprocal: Genesis 15:17 - smoking Genesis 46:2 - Jacob Exodus 19:21 - break Daniel 10:8 - I was Luke 2:15 - Let

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."

Genesis 3:13
Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."

Genesis 3:17
To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

Genesis 20:6
God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn't allow you to touch her.

1 Chronicles 16:22
[Saying], Don't touch my anointed ones, Do my prophets no harm.

Job 1:11
But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face."

Job 2:5
But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face."

Job 19:21
"Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; For the hand of God has touched me.

1 Corinthians 7:1
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me. It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses said, I will now turn aside,.... From the place where he was, and the flock he was feeding, and get nearer to the bush, which seems to have been on one side of him and not directly before him:

and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt; inquire into, and find out, if he could, the reason of this strange and amazing sight; how it could be that a bush should be on fire and yet not burnt up, which might have been expected would have been destroyed at once; for what is a thorn or bramble bush to devouring flames of fire, as these appeared to be?