EXO 3:5 Parallel View

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ULT And he said, “You must not come close to here. Take your sandals off from on your feet, for the place on which you are standing, it is holy ground.”

UST Yahweh said, “Take off your sandals to honor me before you come any closer, because you are standing on ground that is sacred because it is near me.

BSB § “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”[fn]

3:5 Cited in Acts 7:33

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WEB He said, “Don’t come close. Take off your sandals, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.”

NET God said, “Do not approach any closer! Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

LSV And He says, “Do not come near here. Cast your shoes from off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

FBV “Don't come any closer!” God told him. “Take off your sandals because you're standing on holy ground.”

T4T Yahweh said, “Do not come closer! Because I am God, the ground on which you are standing is holy/taboo. So take off your sandals to show respect to me.”

LEB And he said, “You must not come near to here. Take off your sandals from on your feet, because the place on which you are standing, it is holy ground.”

BBE And he said, Do not come near: take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy.

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JPS And He said: 'Draw not nigh hither; put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.'

ASV And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

DRA And he said: Come not nigh hither, put off the shoes from thy feet: for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

YLT And He saith, 'Come not near hither: cast thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place on which thou art standing is holy ground.'

DBY And he said, Draw not nigh hither: loose thy sandals from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

RV And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

WBS And he said, Approach not hither: put off thy shoes from thy feet, for the place on which thou standest is holy ground.

KJB And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
(And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy/your shoes from off thy/your feet, for the place whereon thou/you standest is holy ground. )

BB And he said: Draw not nigh hither, put thy shoes of thy feete, for the place whereon thou standest, is holy ground.
(And he said: Draw not nigh hither, put thy/your shoes of thy/your feet, for the place whereon thou/you standest, is holy ground.)

GNV Then he saide, Come not hither, put thy shooes off thy feete: for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
(Then he said, Come not hither, put thy/your shooes off thy/your feet: for the place whereon thou/you standest is holy ground. )

CB He sayde: Come not hither, put thy shues of thy fete, for the place where vpon thou stondest, is an wholy groude.
(He said: Come not hither, put thy/your shoes of thy/your feet, for the place where upon thou/you stondest, is an wholy groude.)

WYC And the Lord seide, Neiye thou not hidur, but vnbynde thou the scho of thi feet, for the place in which thou stondist is hooli lond.
(And the Lord said, Neiye thou/you not hidur, but unbynde thou/you the scho of thy/your feet, for the place in which thou/you stondist is holy land.)

LUT Er sprach: Tritt nicht herzu! Zeuch deine Schuhe aus von deinen Füßen; denn der Ort, da du auf stehest, ist ein heilig Land.
(Er spoke: Tritt not herzu! Zeuch your Schuhe out of from deinen Füßen; because the location, there you on stehest, is a holy Land.)

CLV At ille: Ne appropies, inquit, huc: solve calceamentum de pedibus tuis: locus enim, in quo stas, terra sancta est.[fn]
(At ille: Ne appropies, inquit, huc: solve calceamentum about feet tuis: locus because, in quo stas, earth/land sancta est.)

3.5 Solve calceamentum, etc. THEOD. Duas ob res jubet calceamenta solvere: primo, ut ipsum magis ac magis religiosum ac reverentem reddat, ut cum tremore mandata ejus accipiat; tum etiam eruditur qua ratione sacertodes in tabernaculo Dei ministrent: nudis enim pedibus sacerdotale munus obibant. ISID. Quia nullus scilicet digne consistere, vel Deum videre potest, nisi cuncta terrena et mortalia deponat. Aliter, veterum consuetudo erat ut si sponsus sponsam repudiaret, in signum repudii discalcearetur. Ideo Moses discalceari jubetur, nec ad Ecclesiam, quæ in rubo significatur, quasi sponsus accedat calceatus; hoc enim Christo servandum, qui verus est sponsus. De quo Joannes ait: Cujus non sum dignus solvere corrigiam calceamenti Joan. 1..

3.5 Solve calceamentum, etc. THEOD. Duas ob res yubet calceamenta solvere: primo, as ipsum magis ac magis religiosum ac reverentem reddat, as when/with tremore mandata his accipiat; tum also eruditur which ratione sacertodes in tabernaculo God ministrent: nudis because feet sacerdotale munus obibant. ISID. Quia nullus scilicet digne consistere, or God videre potest, nisi cuncta terrena and mortalia deponat. Aliter, veterum consuetudo was as when/but_if sponsus sponsam repudiaret, in signum repudii discalcearetur. Ideo Moses discalceari yubetur, but_not to Ecclesiam, which in rubo significatur, as_if sponsus accedat calceatus; hoc because Christo servandum, who verus it_is sponsus. De quo Yoannes ait: Cuyus not/no I_am dignus solvere corrigiam calceamenti Yoan. 1..

BRN And he said, Draw not nigh hither: loose thy sandals from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

BrLXX Ὁ δὲ εἶπε, μὴ ἐγγίσῃς ὧδε· λύσαι τὸ ὑπόδημα ἐκ τῶν ποδῶν σου, ὁ γὰρ τόπος. ἐν ᾧ σὺ ἕστηκας, γῆ ἁγία ἐστί.
(Ho de eipe, maʸ engisaʸs hōde; lusai to hupodaʸma ek tōn podōn sou, ho gar topos. en hō su hestaʸkas, gaʸ hagia esti. )

TSN Tyndale Study Notes:

3:5 The soil around the bush was holy ground, while the soil on the bottom of Moses’ sandals was common. The common cannot touch the holy without being transformed or destroyed (see “Clean, Unclean, and Holy” Theme Note). At the outset of the Exodus, God was making it plain that he is absolutely “other” than his creation, a reality that cannot be overlooked in a proper divine-human relationship. The word holy occurs only a few times in the Bible prior to Exod 3:5. It now becomes the central descriptor of God in the Old Testament. In other Semitic languages, the same root occurs infrequently. It does not describe a moral quality in these other languages but simply what is “other than” human. The pagan gods, for instance, were “holy” only in the sense of being “other”—they did everything humans do, good and evil, but on a larger scale. In the Bible, by contrast, moral perfection is a central idea of the term holy. The one true God is the only being in the universe who truly stands apart from this world and is worthy of being called “holy” in this general sense. The true God is perfectly consistent and moral in his character. Here, at the burning bush, God revealed his otherness. Later at Sinai, he revealed his moral character in his requirements for those who would be his covenant partners (see Exod 19:6; 20:1–23:33; see also Lev 11:45; 1 Pet 1:13-16).

Parallel EXO 3:5