the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Romanian Cornilescu Translation
Exodul 19:23
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Set bounds: Exodus 19:12, Joshua 3:4, Joshua 3:5
Reciprocal: Psalms 68:17 - as in Sinai
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Moses said unto the Lord,.... Upon his giving such strict orders both with respect to the people and the priests:
the people cannot come up to Mount Sinai; suggesting as if there was no need for him to go down on that account, to give them a charge not to break through and gaze; since, as he thought, there was no probability that they ever would attempt it, seeing such a solemn charge had been given, nor any possibility of it, since such a fence was made:
for thou chargedst us, saying, set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it; and accordingly bounds have been set, that the people may not go up it, and the place has been declared sacred, that so none will presume to do it, according to the solemn charge that has been given: some a read the preceding clause by way of interrogation, "may not the people come up to Mount Sinai?" may not any of them? or, if any of them, who may? and there was the greater reason for asking such a question, since the priests that drew near to God might not, and so the next words are conceived to be an answer to it.
a So some in Vatablus.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Exodus 19:23. The people cannot come up — Either because they had been so solemnly forbidden that they would not dare, with the penalty of instant death before their eyes, to transgress the Divine command; or the bounds which were set about the mount were such as rendered their passing them physically impossible.
And sanctify it. — וקדשהי vekiddashio. Here the word קדש kadash is taken in its proper literal sense, signifying the separating of a thing, person or place, from all profane or common uses, and devoting it to sacred purposes.
