Exodus 19:21-23

GOD’S WORD Translation

²¹ The Lord said to him, “Go down and warn the people not to force their way through ⌞the boundary⌟ to see the Lord, or many of them will die. ²² Even the priests who are allowed to come near the Lord must set themselves apart as holy, or the Lord will violently kill them.”

²³ Moses said to the Lord, “The people can’t come up Mount Sinai, because you warned us yourself to mark off a boundary around the mountain and consider it holy.”