Exodo 19:1

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1 Sa ikatolo ka bulan human ang mga anak sa Israel makagula gikan sa yuta sa Egipto, niadtong maong adlaw mingdangat sila sa kamingawan sa Sinai.

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am 2513, bc 1491, An, Ex, Is, 1, Sivan

the third: Exodus 12:2, Exodus 12:6, Leviticus 23:16-18

came: Exodus 16:1, Numbers 33:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:12 - ye shall Exodus 3:18 - that we may Leviticus 25:1 - General Numbers 1:1 - wilderness Numbers 10:11 - on Numbers 10:12 - out of the Deuteronomy 1:6 - Ye have Acts 7:30 - there Acts 7:36 - and in the wilderness Acts 7:53 - have received

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt,.... Which was the month Sivan, and answers to part of May and part of June:

the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai; which had its name from the mountain situated in it, and that from the bushes which grew upon it. Justin z calls it Synan, which he says Moses occupied, and Strabo a, Sinnan. Hither they came either on the same day they came from Rephidim; which, according to Bunting b, were eight miles from it, or on the same day of the month, as to number, that is, on the third day of the third month; and so Jerom c and others say it was on the forty seventh day after their coming out of Egypt, three days after which they received the law on Mount Sinai, it being a generally received notion that the law was given fifty days after the passover; hence the feast of weeks is called from thence the feast of pentecost, or fifty days: or rather this was the first day of the month, as Jarchi and R. Moses; with which agrees the Targum of Jonathan; and so was the forty fifth of their coming out of Egypt, five days after which they received the law; it being a tradition with the Jews, as Aben Ezra observes, that that was given on the sixth of Sivan, and may be accounted for thus; on the first day they came to Sinai, and encamped there, on the day following Moses went up to God, Exodus 19:3, on the third day Moses gathered the elders together, Exodus 19:7, and declared to them the words of God, and on the third day after that, which was the sixth, the law was delivered to them.

z E Trogo, l. 36. c. 2. a Geograph. l. 16. p. 520. b Travels, p. 82. c Epist. Fabiolae de 42 mansion. fol. 15. c. 1. tom. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The wilderness ... the desert of Sinai - If the mount from which the law was delivered be the rock of Ras Safsafeh, then the spacious plain of Er Rahah would be the “desert” of Sinai (see Exodus 5:17).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XIX

The children of Israel, having departed from Rephidim, come to the

wilderness of Sinai in the third month, 1, 2.

Moses goes up into the mount to God, and receives a message which

he is to deliver to the people, 3-6.

He returns and delivers it to the people before the elders, 7.

The people promise obedience, 8.

The Lord proposes to meet Moses in the cloud, 9.

He commands him to sanctify the people, and promises to come down

visibly on Mount Sinai on the third day, 10, 11.

He commands him also to set bounds, to prevent the people or any

of the cattle from touching the mount, on pain of being stoned or

shot through with a dart, 12, 13.

Moses goes down and delivers this message, 14, 15.

The third day is ushered in with the appearance of the thick cloud

upon the mount, and with thunders, lightning, and the sound of a

trumpet! at which the people are greatly terrified, 16

NOTES ON CHAP. XIX

Verse Exodus 19:1. In the third month — This was called Sivan, and answers to our May. For the Jewish months, years, c., see the tables at the end of Deuteronomy.

The same day — There are three opinions concerning the meaning of this place, which are supported by respectable arguments.

1. The same day means the same day of the third month with that, viz., the 15th, on which the Israelites had left Egypt.

2. The same day signifies here a day of the same number with the month to which it is applied, viz., the third day of the third month.

3. By the same day, the first day of the month is intended.

The Jews celebrate the feast of pentecost fifty days after the passover: from the departure out of Egypt to the coming to Sinai were forty-five days for they came out the fifteenth day of the first month, from which day to the first of the third month forty-five days are numbered. On the 2d day of this third month Moses went up into the mountain, when three days were given to the people to purify themselves; this gives the fourth day of the third month, or the forty-ninth from the departure out of Egypt. On the next day, which was the fiftieth from the celebration of the passover, the glory of God appeared on the mount; in commemoration of which the Jews celebrate the feast of pentecost. This is the opinion of St. Augustine and of several moderns, and is defended at large by Houbigant. As the word חדש chodesh, month, is put for new moon, which is with the Jews the first day of the month, this may be considered an additional confirmation of the above opinion.

The wilderness of Sinai. — Mount Sinai is called by the Arabs Jibel Mousa or the Mount of Moses, or, by way of eminence, El Tor, THE Mount. It is one hill, with two peaks or summits; one is called Horeb, the other Sinai. Horeb was probably its most ancient name, and might designate the whole mountain; but as the Lord had appeared to Moses on this mountain in a bush סנה seneh, Exodus 3:2, from this circumstance it might have received the name of Sinai or הר סיני har Sinai, the mount of the bush or the mount of bushes; for it is possible that it was not in a single bush, but in a thicket of bushes, that the Angel of God made his appearance. The word bush is often used for woods or forests.