◄ Exodus 19:14 ►
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Good News Translation
Then Moses came down the mountain and told the people to get ready for worship. So they washed their clothes,

New Revised Standard Version
So Moses went down from the mountain to the people. He consecrated the people, and they washed their clothes.

Contemporary English Version
After Moses went down the mountain, he gave orders for the people to wash their clothes and make themselves acceptable to worship God.

New American Bible
Then Moses came down from the mountain to the people and had them sanctify themselves, and they washed their garments.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses came down from the mount to the people, and sanctified them. And when they had washed their garments,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Moses came down from the mount to the people, and sanctified them. And when they had washed their garments,

and sanctified

Exodus 19:10 And he said to him: Go to the people, and sanctify them to day, and to morrow, and let them wash their garments.

Context
Israel at Mount Sinai
…13No hands shall touch him, but he shall be stoned to death, or he shall be shot through with arrows: whether it be beast, or man, he shall not live. When the trumpet shall begin to sound, then let them go up into the mount. 14And Moses came down from the mount to the people, and sanctified them. And when they had washed their garments,15He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not near your wives.…
Cross References
Genesis 35:2
And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast away the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed, and change your garments.

Exodus 19:13
No hands shall touch him, but he shall be stoned to death, or he shall be shot through with arrows: whether it be beast, or man, he shall not live. When the trumpet shall begin to sound, then let them go up into the mount.

Exodus 19:15
He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not near your wives.

1 Samuel 21:5
And David answered the priest, and said to him: Truly, as to what concerneth women, we have refrained ourselves from yesterday and the day before, when we came out, and the vessels of the young men were holy. Now this way is defiled, but it shall also be sanctified this day in the vessels.

1 Chronicles 15:12
And he said to them: You that are the heads of the Levitical families, be sanctified with your brethren, and bring the ark of the Lord the God of Israel to the place, which is prepared for it:

Exodus 19:13
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