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Exodus 34:30

Aaron and all the people of Israel saw that Moses' face was shining bright. So they were afraid to go near him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Countenance;   Face;   God;   Miracles;   Moses;   Reverence;   Transfiguration;   Thompson Chain Reference - Face;   Light-Darkness;   Shining Faces;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Glory;   Moses;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Horn;   Moses;   Stephen;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Exodus;   Hexateuch;   Law;   Moses;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Transfiguration (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Sinai;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Covenant, the New;   Transfiguration;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Holiness;   Moses;   Moses ben Isaiah Ha-Kohen;   Tables of the Law;   Veil;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
When Aharon and all the children of Yisra'el saw Moshe, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.
King James Version
And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
Lexham English Bible
And Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, and, to their amazement, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid of coming near to him.
New Century Version
When Aaron and all the people of Israel saw that Moses' face was shining, they were afraid to go near him.
New English Translation
When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to approach him.
Amplified Bible
When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to approach him.
New American Standard Bible
So when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to approach him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Aaron and all the children of Israel looked vpon Moses, and beholde, the skin of his face shone bright, and they were afraid to come neere him)
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.
Contemporary English Version
When Aaron and the others looked at Moses, they saw that his face was shining, and they were afraid to go near him.
Complete Jewish Bible
When Aharon and the people of Isra'el saw Moshe, the skin of his face was shining; and they were afraid to approach him.
Darby Translation
And Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.
English Standard Version
Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.
George Lamsa Translation
And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses face, behold, the skin of Moses face shone; and they were afraid to come near to him.
Good News Translation
Aaron and all the people looked at Moses and saw that his face was shining, and they were afraid to go near him.
Christian Standard Bible®
When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face shone! They were afraid to come near him.
Literal Translation
And Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses. And, behold! The skin of his face had become luminous. And they were afraid to draw near to him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And wha Aaron & all the childre of Israel sawe yt the skynne of his face shyned, they were afrayed to come nye him.
American Standard Version
And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
Bible in Basic English
But when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, and the shining of his face, they would not come near him for fear.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Aaron and all the chyldren of Israel looked vpon Moyses: and beholde, the skynne of his face shone, and they were afrayde to come nye hym.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face sent forth beams; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
King James Version (1611)
And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skinne of his face shone, and they were afraid to come nigh him.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Aaron and all the elders of Israel saw Moses, and the appearance of the skin of his face was made glorious, and they feared to approach him.
English Revised Version
And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
Berean Standard Bible
Aaron and all the Israelites looked at Moses, and behold, his face was radiant. And they were afraid to approach him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Aaron and the sones of Israel sien Moises face horned,
Young's Literal Translation
and Aaron seeth -- all the sons of Israel also -- Moses, and lo, the skin of his face hath shone, and they are afraid of coming nigh unto him.
Update Bible Version
And when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, look, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.
Webster's Bible Translation
And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come nigh him.
World English Bible
When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.
New King James Version
So when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.
New Living Translation
So when Aaron and the people of Israel saw the radiance of Moses' face, they were afraid to come near him.
New Life Bible
When Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, they saw that the skin of his face was shining. They were afraid to come near him.
New Revised Standard
When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, and lo! the skin of his face shone, and they stood in awe of drawing nigh unto him.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Aaron and the children of Israel seeing the face of Moses horned, were afraid to come near.
Revised Standard Version
And when Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.

Contextual Overview

28 Moses stayed there with the Lord for 40 days and 40 nights. Moses did not eat any food or drink any water. And he wrote the words of the agreement (the Ten Commandments) on the two stone tablets. 29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, he carried the two stone tablets of the agreement. Because he had talked with the Lord, his face was shining, but he did not know it. 30 Aaron and all the people of Israel saw that Moses' face was shining bright. So they were afraid to go near him. 31 But Moses called to them. So Aaron and all the leaders of the people went to him. Moses talked with them. 32 After that all the Israelites came near Moses, and he gave them the commands that the Lord had given him on Mount Sinai. 33 When Moses finished speaking to the people, he put a covering over his face. 34 Any time Moses went before the Lord to speak with him, Moses took off the covering. Then Moses would come out and tell the Israelites what the Lord commanded. 35 The people would see that Moses' face was shining bright, so he would cover his face again. He kept his face covered until the next time he went in to speak with the Lord.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

afraid: Numbers 12:8, Mark 9:3, Mark 9:15, Luke 5:8

Reciprocal: Exodus 34:35 - General Ecclesiastes 8:1 - a man's

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
I will build a great nation from you. I will bless you and make your name famous. People will use your name to bless other people.
Genesis 12:12
When the Egyptian men see you, they will say, ‘This woman is his wife.' Then they will kill me and keep you alive because they want you.
Genesis 13:7
(The Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in this land at the same time.) The shepherds of Abram and Lot began to argue.
Genesis 34:5
Jacob learned that Shechem had done this very bad thing to his daughter. But all his sons were out in the fields with the cattle. So he did nothing until they came home.
Genesis 34:7
In the fields Jacob's sons heard the news about what had happened. They were very angry because Shechem had brought shame to Israel by raping Jacob's daughter. They came in from the fields as soon as they heard about the terrible thing Shechem had done.
Genesis 34:13
Jacob's sons decided to lie to Shechem and his father because Shechem had done such a bad thing to their sister Dinah.
Genesis 34:14
The brothers said to them, "We cannot allow our sister to marry you because you are not yet circumcised. That would bring us shame.
Genesis 34:18
This agreement made Hamor and Shechem very happy.
Genesis 34:20
Hamor and Shechem went to the meeting place of their city. They spoke to the men of the city and said,
Genesis 46:27
Also, Joseph had two sons in Egypt. With these two grandsons, Jacob's family in Egypt numbered 70 people in all.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses,.... Who very probably met him at the bottom of the mount; these Israelites with Aaron were the princes, as Aben Ezra seems rightly to interpret it, and as appears from the following verse; for Moses could not well be seen by the whole body of the people at once, upon his descent from the mount:

behold, the skin of his face shone; darted out rays of light and glory all around it, much perhaps in the same manner as the glory about our Lord, and others, is painted by the Romanists:

and they were afraid to come nigh him; there was something so majestic and striking in it; and perhaps they could not tell whether it foreboded good or evil to them; and this may signify, that as by the light of the law sin is discovered, it fills with a sense of wrath and fear of damnation; and being the ministration of condemnation and death, it is terrifying and killing, though it has a glory in it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 34:30. They were afraid to come nigh him. — A sight of his face alarmed them; their consciences were still guilty from their late transgression, and they had not yet received the atonement. The very appearance of superior sanctity often awes the guilty into respect.


 
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