While Moses was on Mount Sinai, the Lord said to him,
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh said to Moses in Mount Sinai,
- KJV And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
- BSB Then the LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
- NKJV And the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,
- NASB The Lord then spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,
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Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, introducing the laws of the sabbatical year and Jubilee. These commands came with full divine authority.
Overview
The mention of Mount Sinai underscores that the following land laws were part of the foundational covenant given to Israel. It signals the importance and authority of the Sabbath-year and Jubilee instructions to follow. These laws would shape Israel's economic and spiritual life around trust in God's provision and ownership of the land.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Gal 4:24–25These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.
- Num 10:11–12In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony.
- Num 1:1Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
- Exod 19:1In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.
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