Exodus 19:15 Then he said to the people, "Prepare yourselves for the third day. Abstain from sexual relations."

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Then he said to the people, "Prepare yourselves for the third day. Abstain from sexual relations."

English Standard Version
And he said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not go near a woman.”

New American Standard Bible
He said to the people, "Be ready for the third day; do not go near a woman."

King James Bible
And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He said to the people, "Be prepared by the third day. Do not have sexual relations with women."

International Standard Version
He told the people, "Be ready for the third day; don't go near a woman."

American Standard Version
And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not near a woman.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not near your wives.

Darby Bible Translation
And he said to the people, Be ready for the third day; do not come near your wives.

Young's Literal Translation
and he saith unto the people, 'Be ye prepared for the third day, come not nigh unto a woman.'

Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:5
Defraud you not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

Exodus 19:14
And Moses went down from the mount to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

Exodus 19:16
And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightning, and a thick cloud on the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.

1 Samuel 21:4
And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.

1 Samuel 21:5
And David answered the priest, and said to him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yes, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.

1 Chronicles 15:12
And said to them, You are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel to the place that I have prepared for it.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

19:9-15 The solemn manner in which the law was delivered, was to impress the people with a right sense of the Divine majesty. Also to convince them of their own guilt, and to show that they could not stand in judgment before God by their own obedience. In the law, the sinner discovers what he ought to be, what he is, and what he wants. There he learns the nature, necessity, and glory of redemption, and of being made holy. Having been taught to flee to Christ, and to love him, the law is the rule of his obedience and faith.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

9-15. The Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I come … in a thick cloud, &c.—The deepest impressions are made on the mind through the medium of the senses; and so He who knew what was in man signalized His descent at the inauguration of the ancient church, by all the sensible tokens of august majesty that were fitted to produce the conviction that He is the great and terrible God. The whole multitude must have anticipated the event with feelings of intense solemnity and awe. The extraordinary preparations enjoined, the ablutions and rigid abstinence they were required to observe, the barriers erected all round the base of the mount, and the stern penalties annexed to the breach of any of the conditions, all tended to create an earnest and solemn expectation which increased as the appointed day drew near.