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Text -- Exodus 20:18-26 (NET)
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20:18 All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning , and heard the sound of the horn , and saw the mountain smoking – and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance .
20:19 They said to Moses , “You speak to us and we will listen , but do not let God speak with us, lest we die .”
20:20 Moses said to the people , “Do not fear , for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you so that you do not sin .”
20:21 The people kept their distance , but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.
The Altar
20:22 The Lord said to Moses : “Thus you will tell the Israelites : ‘You yourselves have seen that I have spoken with you from heaven .
20:23 You must not make gods of silver alongside me, nor make gods of gold for yourselves.
20:24 ‘You must make for me an altar made of earth , and you will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings , your sheep and your cattle . In every place where I cause my name to be honored I will come to you and I will bless you.
20:25 If you make me an altar of stone , you must not build it of stones shaped with tools , for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it.
20:26 And you must not go up by steps to my altar , so that your nakedness is not exposed .’
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Altar |
ISRAEL, HISTORY OF, 1 |
ISRAEL, RELIGION OF, 2 |
GOVERNMENT |
EXODUS, THE BOOK OF, 3-4 |
ETHICS, III |
EXODUS, THE BOOK OF, 2 |
LAW IN THE OLD TESTAMENT |
LEVITICUS, 2 |
Revelation |
Sinai |
Israel |
TEXT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT |
SANCTUARY |
TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE |
CRITICISM OF THE BIBLE |
HAMMURABI, CODE OF |
BIBLE, THE, IV CANONICITY |
ARK OF THE COVENANT |
COVENANT, BOOK OF THE |
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NET Notes: Exo 20:19 The verb is a Piel imperative. In this context it has more of the sense of a request than a command. The independent personal pronoun “you”...
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NET Notes: Exo 20:20 The negative form לְבִלְתִּי (lÿvilti) is used here with the imperfect tense (see for...
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NET Notes: Exo 20:21 It will not be hard to expound the passage on the Ten Commandments once their place in scripture has been determined. They, for the most part, are rei...
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NET Notes: Exo 20:23 U. Cassuto explains that by the understanding of parallelism each of the halves apply to the whole verse, so that “with me” and “for...
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NET Notes: Exo 20:24 The verb is זָכַר (zakhar, “to remember”), but in the Hiphil especially it can mean more than remember or ca...
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NET Notes: Exo 20:25 The verb is a preterite with vav (ו) consecutive. It forms the apodosis in a conditional clause: “if you lift up your tool on it…you...
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