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Exodus 19:15

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19:15He said to the people, “Be ready for the third day. Do not go near your wives.”28

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  1. 28 Heb “do not go near a woman”; “Abstain from sexual relations.” B. Jacob (Exodus, 537) notes that as the people were to approach him they were not to lose themselves in earthly love. Such separations prepared the people for meeting God. Sinai was like a bride, forbidden to anyone else. Abstinence was the spiritual preparation for coming into the presence of the Holy One.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

And he said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not go near a woman.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Then he said to the people, “Prepare yourselves for the third day. Abstain from sexual relations.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

He said to the people, “Be prepared by the third day. Do not have sexual relations with women.”

NLTNew Living Translation

He told them, “Get ready for the third day, and until then abstain from having sexual intercourse.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And he said to the people, “Be ready for the third day. Do not go near to a woman.”

KJV 1900King James Version

And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.