Holy Scripture

Exodus 24:2

A church father on this verse
“For it is not everyone who may draw near to God but only one who, like Moses, can bear the glory of God. Moreover, before this, when the law was first given, the trumpet blasts, and lightnings, and thunders, and darkness, and the smoke of the whole mountain, and the terrible threats that if even a beast touched the mo…”
Gregory of Nazianzus, 4th c. — ORATION 2.92

Source: Septuagint

Original

2And Moses alone shall draw nigh to God; and they shall not draw nigh, and the people shall not come up with them.

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In context

1And to Moses he said, Go up to the Lord, thou and Aaron and Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: and they shall worship the Lord from a distance.

— Exodus 24:2 —

3And Moses went in and related to the people all the words of God and the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, saying, All the words which the Lord has spoken, we will do and be obedient.

4And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and set up twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.

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