| Verse | Translation | Text |
| Ex 19:21 | Strong Concordance | And the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto Moses [04872], Go down [03381], charge [05749] the people [05971], lest they break through [02040] unto the LORD [03068] to gaze [07200], and many [07227] of them perish [05307]. |
| King James | And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. |
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people--No sooner had Moses proceeded a little up the mount, than he was suddenly ordered to return, in order to keep the people from breaking through to gaze--a course adopted to heighten the impressive solemnity of the scene. The strict injunctions renewed to all, whatever their condition, at a time and in circumstances when the whole multitude of Israel were standing at the base of the mount, was calculated in the highest degree to solemnize and awe every heart. |