this explanation of sources. The author-editor had sources, but not these sources. It is entirely fitting that the author would find, in the revelation of Yahweh as holy, a seminal and all-encompassing truth and then develop it as he did in his other ancient sources. The concept and its development was inherent in the sources he had at hand, oral or written. God’s personal holiness had to be respected; to approach it in an unholy state resulted in death (Exod 19:12–13, 21–22; Lev 10:1–3). Mount Sinai