And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
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Gill's Exposition
And the Lord said unto Moses,.... When Moses was come near the thick darkness where God was:
thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel; at his return unto them, and which he was to deliver in…
Compare Deu 5:22-31. Aaron Exo 19:24 on this occasion accompanied Moses in drawing near to the thick darkness. Exo 20:22 to Exo 23:33 is a series of laws which we may identify with what was written by…
Adam Clarke
And Moses said - Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces - The maxim contained in this verse is, Fear not, that he may fear - do not fear with such a fear as…
I. The extraordinary terror with which the law was given. Never was any thing delivered with such awful pomp; every word was accented, and every sentence paused, with thunder and lightning, much…
Cambridge Bible
to prove you to put you to the proof (Exo 16:4; cf. on Exo 17:2), to the whether (Deu 8:2), as you have just said (v.19), you will really obey Him, and in order to inspire you with the dread of…
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