Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
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Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
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And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
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And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their garments.
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- Exodus 19:10 Yahweh said to Moses, “Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 19:14 And Moses went down from the mount…
Exo 19:14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
Ver. 14. And they washed their clothes.] In token of washing their hearts, and "cleansing themselves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit." The Gentiles also washed, that they might go to sacrifice: and the primitive Christians before prayer. {a}
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{a} Plaut., in Alul., act. iii. scen. 6. Tertul., De Orat., cap. 11.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Moses sanctified the people, by commanding them to sanctify…
Moses sanctified the people, by commanding them to sanctify themselves, and directing them how to do it.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Moses went down from the mount unto the…
And Moses went down from the mount unto the people,.... The same day that he went up, the fourth day of the month:
and sanctified the people; instructed them and ordered them what they should do for their sanctification, in order to their hearing the law from the mouth of the Lord:
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and they washed their clothes; as the Lord had directed Moses to enjoin them, and as he had commanded them; see Gill on Exo 19:10.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 14–15. The sequel in E to vv. 10, 11a.…
14–15. The sequel in E to vv. 10, 11a. Moses comes down from the mountain, and sanctifies the people as instructed in vv. 10, 11a.
15b. Cf. 1Sa_21:4; and the Minaean inscr. cited in ATLAO. p. 433.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain In obedience to the commands which he had received…
In obedience to the commands which he had received (ver. 10), Moses returned to the camp at the foot of Sinai, and issued the order that the people were to purify themselves and wash their garments during that day and the next, and be ready for a great solemnity on the third day. He must also, at the same time, have given directions for the construction of the fence, which was to hedge in the people (ver. 12), and which he speaks of as constructed in ver. 23.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 do not go near your wives
do not go near your wives
This is a polite way of talking about sleeping with their wives. AT: "do not sleep with your wives" (See: Euphemism)
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set apart
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