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Exodus 19:14

And Moses came down from the mount to the people, and sanctified them. And when they had washed their garments,

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine)
Descenditque Moyses de monte ad populum, et sanctificavit eum. Cumque lavissent vestimenta sua,
Septuagint (Swete)
κατέβη δὲ Μωυσῆς ἐκ τοῦ ὄρους πρὸς τὸν λαόν, καὶ ἡγίασεν αὐτούς· καὶ ἔπλυναν τὰ ἱμάτια.
Hebrew (WLC)
וַיֵּ֧רֶד מֹשֶׁ֛ה מִן הָהָ֖ר אֶל הָעָ֑ם וַיְקַדֵּשׁ֙ אֶת הָעָ֔ם וַֽיְכַבְּס֖וּ שִׂמְלֹתָֽם

The Fathers on this verse

St Gregory Nazianzen The Second Theological Oration

II. Now when I go up eagerly into the Mount, or, to use a truer expression, when I both eagerly long, and at the same time am afraid (the one through my hope and the other through my weakness) to enter within the Cloud, and hold converse with God, for so God commands; if any be an Aaron, let him go up with me, and let him stand near, being ready, if it must be so, to remain outside the Cloud. But if any be a Nadad or an Abihu, or of the Order of the Elders, let him go up indeed, but let him stand afar off, according to the value of his purification. …