Exodus 19:23
And Moses said to the Lord: The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou did charge, and command, saying: Set limits about the mount, and sanctify it.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dixitque Moyses ad Dominum : Non poterit vulgus ascendere in montem Sinai : tu enim testificatus es, et jussisti, dicens : Pone terminos circa montem, et sanctifica illum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Μωυσῆς πρὸς τὸν θεόν Οὐ δυνήσεται ὁ λαὸς προσαναβῆναι πρὸς τὸ ὄρος τὸ Σεινά· σὺ γὰρ διαμεμαρτύρησαι ἡμῖν λέγων Ἀφόρισαι τὸ ὄρος καὶ ἁγίασαι αὐτό.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶר מֹשֶׁה֙ אֶל יְהוָ֔ה לֹא יוּכַ֣ל הָעָ֔ם לַעֲלֹ֖ת אֶל הַ֣ר סִינָ֑י כִּֽי אַתָּ֞ה הַעֵדֹ֤תָה בָּ֨נוּ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר הַגְבֵּ֥ל אֶת הָהָ֖ר וְקִדַּשְׁתּֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
The people. Glassius understands this with an interrogation, "Can no one?" God exempts Aaron from the common law, ver. 24. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.