Text -- Exodus 19:22 (NET)

19:22 Let the priests also, who approach the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break through against them.”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Exo 19:22

¹ tn The verb יִפְרֹץ (yifrots) is the imperfect tense from פָּרַץ (parats, “to make a breach, to break through”). The image of Yahweh breaking forth on them means “work destruction” (see 2 Sam 6:8; S. R. Driver, Exodus, 174).