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Exodus 19:15

EXODUS—NOTE ON Exodus 19:15 The instruction to not go near a woman probably includes abstaining from sex as a way of preparing to meet with God (compare Leviticus 15:16). It does not imply that there is anything inherently unacceptable either in sexual relations or in women.

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See also Exodus 19:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 19. AWFUL REVELATION OF GOD IN FIRE AND CLOUD. Exodus 19:1 a P, Exodus 19:2 b - Exodus 19:3 a E, Exodus 19:3 b -...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 19 In the third month after the children of Is-ra-el were gone forth out of the land of E-gypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Si-nai. (2) And when they w...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, LO, I COME UNTO THEE IN A THICK CLOUD, THAT THE PEOPLE MAY HEAR WHEN I SPEAK WITH THEE, AND BELIEVE THEE FOR EVER. AND MOSES TOLD THE WORDS OF THE PEOPLE UNTO THE LORD._...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PREPARATION FOR THE GIVING OF THE LAW 1. The same day] the 15th day of the month: cp. Exodus 12:18; Exodus 12:29; Exodus 16:1. Marching slowly, with long halts at the various stations on the route, th...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF EXODUS Exodus is one of the first 5 books of the *Old Tes...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    COME NOT AT YOUR WIVES. — Comp. 1 Samuel 21:4 :1 Corinthians 7:5. It was the general sentiment of antiquity that a ceremonial uncleanness attached even to the chastest sexual connection. (Herod. I. 18...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ אֶל ־הָ עָ֔ם הֱי֥וּ נְכֹנִ֖ים

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    MOSES RECEIVES JEHOVAH'S WORDS IN THE MOUNT Exodus 19:1 The plain beneath Sinai, where Israel encamped, has been identified, and the reader should study the books of travelers which afford a mental c...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here we begin the third great movement in the Book of Exodus. We have seen the people in bondage and have observed them being delivered from that bondage and guided by Jehovah. However, they were stil...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at [your] (f) wives. (f) But give yourselves to prayer and abstinence, that you may at this time attend only upon the Lord, (1 Co...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Wives. St. Paul recommends continence when people have to pray, 1 Corinthians vii. On the pagan temple of Epidaurus, this inscription was placed, "Let those be chaste who enter here." (Clement of Ale...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    1 Samuel 21:3; 1 Samuel 21:3, compared with 1 Corinthians 7:5....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. But having thus terminated the course of grace, the scene changes entirely. They do not keep the feast on the mountain, whither God, as He had...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND HE SAID UNTO THE PEOPLE, BE READY AGAINST THE THIRD DAY,.... The third day from thence, the sixth of the month Sivan, against which day they were to prepare themselves, by washing their garments,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at [your] wives. Ver. 15. _Be ready against the third day._] If the word of a command expected such readiness, what shall the wor...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The people come to Sinai. 3 Gods message by Moses vnto the people out of the mount. 8 The peoples answere returned againe. 10 The people are prepared against the third day. 12 The mountaine must...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day; come not at your wives, all marital relations were to be suspended for the time being. All these preparations show that Israel was still a...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    SECOND DIVISION: MOSES AND SINAI. FOUNDATION IN THE LARGER SENSE Exodus 19-31 FIRST SECTION The Arrival at Sinai and the Preparation for the Giving of the Law. The Covenant People and Covenant King...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    A CONDITIONAL PROMISE (vs.1-6) Chapter 19 begins the second great division of the book of Exodus. God's deliverance of Israel from Egypt has been fully accomplished though they are still in the wilde...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-15 The solemn manner in which the law was delivered, was to impress the people with a right sense of the Divine majesty. Also to convince them of their own guilt, and to show that they could not st...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Abstain from the use of the marriage-bed, partly because your wives may haply have their uncleanness upon them, though unknown to themselves, at least to you, whereby you may be legally defiled; see L...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    We have now arrived at a most momentous point in Israel's history. We are called to behold them standing at the foot of "the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire." The fair millennia...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 19:15 said H559 (H8799) people H5971 Be H1961 (H8798) ready H3559 (H8737) third H7969 day...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Israel at Sinai and the preparation for receiving the law. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CONCLUSION: Humble reverence should possess the minds of those who draw near to God for we are sin...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 19:1. _The third month._ On the fourteenth day at night the paschal lamb was slain. The two months contain sixty days, and on the fourth day of the third month the law was given, or the sixty f...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 19:7_ The subject of this paragraph is God’s revelation of Himself,—the call to receive it, the manner in which it was made. I. WHEN GOD REVEALS HIMSELF MAN...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE PREPARATION OF THE PEOPLE AND OF THE MOUNTAIN FOR THE MANIFESTATION OF GOD UPON IT. The people having accepted God's terms, the time had come for the revelation in all its fulness of th...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, in the same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. For they were departed from Rephidim, and they wer...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    be ready Amos 4:12 Malachi 3:2 Matthew 3:10 Matthew 24:44 2 Peter 3:11...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    VISIONS OF GOD Exodus 19:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Going forth out of Egypt. Our study for today opens with the words: "In the third month, when the Children of Israel were gone forth out of the land...

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