Exodus 19:12
And thou shalt appoint certain limits to the people round about, and thou shalt say to them: Take heed you go not up into the mount, and that ye touch not the borders thereof: every one that toucheth the mount dying he shall die.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Constituesque terminos populo per circuitum, et dices ad eos : Cavete ne ascendatis in montem, nec tangatis fines illius : omnis qui tetigerit montem, morte morietur.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἀφοριεῖς τὸν λαὸν κύκλῳ λέγων Προσέχετε ἑαυτοῖς τοῦ ἀναβῆναι εἰς τὸ ὄρος καὶ θιγεῖν τι αὐτοῦ· πᾶς ὁ ἁψάμενος τοῦ ὄρους θανάτῳ τελευτήσει.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהִגְבַּלְתָּ֤ אֶת הָעָם֙ סָבִ֣יב לֵאמֹ֔ר הִשָּׁמְר֥וּ לָכֶ֛ם עֲל֥וֹת בָּהָ֖ר וּנְגֹ֣עַ בְּקָצֵ֑הוּ כָּל הַנֹּגֵ֥עַ בָּהָ֖ר מ֥וֹת יוּמָֽת
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine A Treatise on the Spirit and the Letter, A Comparison of the Law of Moses and of the New Law
Now, amidst this admirable correspondence, there is at least this very considerable diversity in the cases, in that the people in the earlier instance were deterred by a horrible dread from approaching the place where the law was given; whereas in the other case the Holy Ghost came upon them who were gathered together in expectation of His promised gift. There it was on tables of stone that the finger of God operated; here it was on the hearts of men. There the law was given outwardly, so that the unrighteous might be terrified; here it was given inwardly, so that they might be justified. For this, “Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment,”, such, of course, as was written on those tables, “it is briefly comprehended,” says he, “in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. …