“The LORD said to Moses, “Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Exodus 19 contains 25 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.