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Selected Verse: Exodus 19:13 - King James

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Ex 19:13 King James There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Touch it - Rather "touch him." The person who had touched the mount was not to be touched, since the contact would be pollution.
 
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20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: