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THE MESSAGE

Exodus 19:7

Moses came back and called the elders of Israel together and set before them all these words which God had commanded him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Decision;   Government;   Israel;   Moses;   Sinai;   Word of God;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Thompson Chain Reference - Elders;   Leaders;   Religious;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Exodus;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Age, Old (the Aged);   Amos, Theology of;   Leadership;   Prophet, Prophetess, Prophecy;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Congregation;   Festivals, Religious;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Idol;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Beard;   Call, Calling;   Exodus, Book of;   Promise;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Elder;   Exodus;   Moses;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sina, Sinai ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elder;   Sinai;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Government of the Hebrews;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Encampment at Sinai;   Events of the Encampment;   Proclamation of the Law;   Tabernacle, the;   Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   Moses, the Man of God;   Law of Moses, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Elder in the Old Testament;   Law, Judicial;   Sacrifice;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Elder;   Elohist;   Judaism;   Saul of Tarsus;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Moshe came and called for the Zakenim of the people, and set before them all these words which the LORD commanded him.
King James Version
And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the Lord commanded him.
Lexham English Bible
And Moses came and called the elders of the people, and he placed before them all these words that Yahweh had commanded him.
New Century Version
So Moses went down and called the elders of the people together. He told them all the words the Lord had commanded him to say.
New English Translation
So Moses came and summoned the elders of Israel. He set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him,
Amplified Bible
So Moses called for the elders of the people, and told them all these words which the LORD commanded him.
New American Standard Bible
So Moses came and called the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the LORD had commanded him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Moses then came & called for the Elders of the people, and proposed vnto them all these things, which the Lord commanded him.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Moses came and called the elders of the people and set before them all these words which Yahweh had commanded him.
Contemporary English Version
After Moses went back, he reported to the leaders what the Lord had said,
Complete Jewish Bible
(v) Moshe came, summoned the leaders of the people and presented them with all these words which Adonai had ordered him to say.
Darby Translation
And Moses came and called the elders of the people, and laid before the mall these words which Jehovah had commanded him.
Easy-to-Read Version
So Moses climbed down the mountain and called the elders of the people together. Moses told the elders everything the Lord had commanded him to tell them.
English Standard Version
So Moses came and called the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him.
George Lamsa Translation
And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and said in their presence all these words which the LORD commanded him.
Good News Translation
So Moses went down and called the leaders of the people together and told them everything that the Lord had commanded him.
Christian Standard Bible®
After Moses came back, he summoned the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him.
Literal Translation
And Moses came and called the elders of the people. And he put all these words before them which Jehovah commanded him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and layed before them all these wordes, that the LORDE had commaunded.
American Standard Version
And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Jehovah commanded him.
Bible in Basic English
And Moses came and sent for the chiefs of the people and put before them all these words which the Lord had given him orders to say.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Moyses came and called for the elders of the people, and layde before theyr faces all these wordes whiche the Lorde commaunded hym.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the LORD commanded him.
King James Version (1611)
And Moses came and called for the Elders of the people, and layd before their faces all these wordes which the Lord commanded him.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses came and called the elders of the people, and he set before them all these words, which God appointed them.
English Revised Version
And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the LORD commanded him.
Berean Standard Bible
So Moses went back and summoned the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Moyses cam, and whanne the gretter men in birthe of the puple weren clepid to gidere, he expownede alle the wordis whiche the Lord comaundide.
Young's Literal Translation
And Moses cometh, and calleth for the elders of the people, and setteth before them all these words which Jehovah hath commanded him;
Update Bible Version
And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.
World English Bible
Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him.
New King James Version
So Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before them all these words which the LORD commanded him.
New Living Translation
So Moses returned from the mountain and called together the elders of the people and told them everything the Lord had commanded him.
New Life Bible
So Moses came and called the leaders of the people. He told them all these words which the Lord had told him.
New Revised Standard
So Moses came, summoned the elders of the people, and set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then came Moses, and called for the elders of the people, - and put before them all these words which Yahweh had commanded him.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Moses came; and calling together the elders of the people, he declared all the words which the Lord had commanded.
Revised Standard Version
So Moses came and called the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the LORD had commanded him.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Moses came and called the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the LORD had commanded him.

Contextual Overview

1Three months after leaving Egypt the Israelites entered the Wilderness of Sinai. They followed the route from Rephidim, arrived at the Wilderness of Sinai, and set up camp. Israel camped there facing the mountain. 3As Moses went up to meet God, God called down to him from the mountain: "Speak to the House of Jacob, tell the People of Israel: ‘You have seen what I did to Egypt and how I carried you on eagles' wings and brought you to me. If you will listen obediently to what I say and keep my covenant, out of all peoples you'll be my special treasure. The whole Earth is mine to choose from, but you're special: a kingdom of priests, a holy nation.' "This is what I want you to tell the People of Israel." 7 Moses came back and called the elders of Israel together and set before them all these words which God had commanded him. 8 The people were unanimous in their response: "Everything God says, we will do." Moses took the people's answer back to God .

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the elders: Exodus 3:16

and laid: Exodus 4:29, Exodus 4:30, 1 Corinthians 15:1

Reciprocal: Exodus 12:21 - elders Exodus 21:1 - which

Cross-References

Genesis 19:4
Before they went to bed men from all over the city of Sodom, young and old, descended on the house from all sides and boxed them in. They yelled to Lot, "Where are the men who are staying with you for the night? Bring them out so we can have our sport with them!"
Genesis 19:9
They said, "Get lost! You drop in from nowhere and now you're going to tell us how to run our lives. We'll treat you worse than them!" And they charged past Lot to break down the door.
Genesis 19:23
The sun was high in the sky when Lot arrived at Zoar.
Genesis 19:24
Then God rained brimstone and fire down on Sodom and Gomorrah—a river of lava from God out of the sky!—and destroyed these cities and the entire plain and everyone who lived in the cities and everything that grew from the ground.
Leviticus 18:22
"Don't have sex with a man as one does with a woman. That is abhorrent.
Leviticus 20:13
"If a man has sex with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is abhorrent. They must be put to death; they are responsible for their own deaths.
Deuteronomy 23:17
No daughter of Israel is to become a sacred prostitute; and no son of Israel is to become a sacred prostitute. And don't bring the fee of a sacred whore or the earnings of a priest-pimp to the house of God, your God, to pay for any vow—they are both an abomination to God , your God.
Judges 19:23
He went out and told them, "No, brothers! Don't be obscene—this man is my guest. Don't commit this outrage. Look, my virgin daughter and his concubine are here. I'll bring them out for you. Abuse them if you must, but don't do anything so senselessly vile to this man."
Romans 1:24
So God said, in effect, "If that's what you want, that's what you get." It wasn't long before they were living in a pigpen, smeared with filth, filthy inside and out. And all this because they traded the true God for a fake god, and worshiped the god they made instead of the God who made them—the God we bless, the God who blesses us. Oh, yes!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses came and called for the elders of the people,.... After he had heard the above words from the mouth of God, he came down from the mount into the camp of Israel, and sent for the elders or principal men of the tribes and families of Israel to come to him:

and, being gathered together,

laid before their faces all these words which the Lord commanded him; expressed them in the plainest manner, set them in the clearest light to their minds and consciences; so that they thoroughly understood them, were fully convinced of the propriety of these things God required of them, and their obligation to observe them, and saw plainly the greatness and importance of what he promised unto them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 19:7. The elders of the people — The head of each tribe, and the chief of each family, by whose ministry this gracious purpose of God was speedily communicated to the whole camp.


 
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