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Exodus 19:15

Context
NETBible

He said to the people, “Be ready for the third day. Do not go near your wives.” 1 

XREF

Ex 19:11,16; 1Sa 21:4,5; Joe 2:16; Am 4:12; Zec 6:3; Zec 7:3; Zec 12:12-14; Mal 3:2; Mt 3:10-12; Mt 24:44; 1Co 7:5; 2Pe 3:11,12

NET © Notes

tn Heb “do not go near a woman”; NIV “Abstain from sexual relations.”

sn B. Jacob (Exodus, 537) notes that as the people were to approach him they were not to lose themselves in earthly love. Such separations prepared the people for meeting God. Sinai was like a bride, forbidden to anyone else. Abstinence was the spiritual preparation for coming into the presence of the Holy One.



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