Acts 7:33
Good News Translation
The Lord said to him, 'Take your sandals off, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord said to him, "Take off your sandals, because the place where you are standing is holy.

New American Bible
But the Lord said to him, ‘Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord said to him: Loose the shoes from thy feet: for the place wherein thou standest is holy ground.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord said to him: Loose the shoes from thy feet: for the place wherein thou standest is holy ground.

Put.

Exodus 3:5 And he said: Come not nigh hither, put off the shoes from thy feet; for the place, whereon thou standest, is holy ground.

Joshua 5:15 Loose, saith he, thy shoes from off thy feet: for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did as was commanded him.

Ecclesiastes 5:1 Keep thy foot, when thou goest into the house of God, and draw nigh to hear. For much better is obedience, than the victims of fools, who know not what evil they do.

2 Peter 1:18 And this voice, we heard brought from heaven, when we were with him in the holy mount.

Context
Stephen's Address to the Sanhedrin
32I am the God of thy fathers: the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. And Moses being terrified durst not behold. 33And the Lord said to him: Loose the shoes from thy feet: for the place wherein thou standest is holy ground. 34Seeing, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt: and I have heard their groaning and am come down to deliver them. And now come: and I will send thee into Egypt.…
Cross References
Exodus 3:5
And he said: Come not nigh hither, put off the shoes from thy feet; for the place, whereon thou standest, is holy ground.

Joshua 5:15
Loose, saith he, thy shoes from off thy feet: for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did as was commanded him.

Matthew 3:11
I indeed baptize you in water unto penance, but he that shall come after me, is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost and fire.

Acts 7:32
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