Exodus 19:22-24

GOD’S WORD Translation

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.”

²⁴ The Lord said to him, “Go down, and bring Aaron back with you. But the priests and the people must not force their way through the boundary to come up to the Lord, or he will violently kill them.”