Chinese Union Bible (1919) - with Strong’s numbers

1以色列H3478人H1121出H3318埃及H4714地H776以後，滿了三個H7992月H2320的那一天H3117，就來到H935西乃H5514的曠野H4057。 2他們離了H5265利非訂H7508，來到H935西乃H5514的曠野H4057，就在那裡的山H2022下安營H2583。 3摩西H4872到H5927神H430那裡，耶和華H3068從山上H2022呼喚他H7121說H559：你要這樣告訴H559雅各H3290家H1004，曉諭H5046以色列H3478人H1121說： 4我向埃及人H4714所行的事H6213，你們都看見了H7200，且看見我如鷹H5404將你們背在H5375翅膀H3671上，帶來H935歸我。 5如今你們若實在H8085聽從H8085我的話H6963，遵守H8104我的約H1285，就要在萬民H5971中作屬我的子民H5459，因為全地H776都是我的。 6你們要歸我作祭司H3548的國度H4467，為聖潔H6918的國民H1471。這些話H1697你要告訴H1696以色列H3478人H1121。 7摩西H4872去H935召了H7121民間的H5971長老H2205來，將耶和華H3068所吩咐他的H6680話H1697都在他們面前H6440陳明H7760。 8百姓H5971都同聲H3162回答H6030說H559：凡耶和華H3068所說的H1696，我們都要遵行H6213。摩西H4872就將百姓的H5971話H1697回覆H7725耶和華H3068。 9耶和華H3068對摩西H4872說H559：我要在密H5645雲中H6051臨到H935你那裡，叫百姓H5971在我與你說話H1696的時候可以聽見H8085，也可以永遠H5769信你了H539。於是，摩西H4872將百姓H5971的話H1697奏告H5046耶和華H3068。 10耶和華H3068又對摩西H4872說H559：你往百姓H5971那裡去H3212，叫他們今天H3117明天H4279自潔H6942，又叫他們洗H3526衣服H8071。 11到第三H7992天H3117要預備好了H3559，因為第三H7992天H3117耶和華H3068要在眾百姓H5971眼前H5869降臨H3381在西乃H5514山上H2022。 12你要在山的四圍H5439給百姓H5971定界限H1379，說H559：你們當謹慎H8104，不可上H5927山H2022去，也不可摸H5060山的邊界H7097；凡摸H5060這山H2022的，必H4191要治死他H4191。 13不可用手H3027摸他H5060，必H5619用石頭打死H5619，或H176用箭射H3384透H3384；無論H518是人H376是牲畜H929，都不得活H2421。到角聲H3104拖長H4900的時候，他們纔可到H5927山H2022根來。 14摩西H4872下H3381山H2022往百姓H5971那裡去，叫他們H5971自潔H6942，他們就洗H3526衣服H8071。 15他對百姓H5971說H559：到第三H7969天H3117要H1961預備好了H3559。不可親近H5066女人H802。 16到了第三H7992天H3117早晨H1242，在山H2022上有雷轟H6963、閃電H1300，和密H3515雲H6051，並且角H7782聲H6963甚H3966大H2389，營中H4264的百姓H5971盡都發顫H2729。 17摩西H4872率領H3318百姓H5971出營H4264迎接H7125神H430，都站在H3320山H2022下H8482。 18西乃H5514全山H2022冒煙H6225，因為H6440,H834耶和華H3068在火中H784降於H3381山上。山的煙氣H6227上騰H5927，如燒窯H3536,H6227一般，遍山H2022大大的H3966震動H2729。 19角H7782聲H6963漸漸H1980的高H2390而又高H3966，摩西H4872就說話H1696，神H430有聲音H6963答應他H6030。 20耶和華H3068降臨H3381在西乃H5514山H2022頂H7218上，耶和華H3068召H7121摩西H4872上山H2022頂H7218，摩西H4872就上去H5927。 21耶和華H4872對摩西H4872說H559：你下去H3381囑咐H5749百姓H5971，不可闖過來H2040到我H3068面前觀看H7200，恐怕他們有多人H7227死亡H5307； 22又叫親近H5066我H3068的祭司H3548自潔H6942，恐怕我H3068忽然出來擊殺H6555他們。 23摩西H4872對耶和華H3068說H559：百姓H5971不能H3201上H5927西乃H5514山H2022，因為你已經囑咐H5749我們說H559：要在山H2022的四圍定界限H1379，叫山成聖H6942。 24耶和華H3068對他說H559：下去罷H3381，你要和亞倫H175一同上來H5927；只是祭司H3548和百姓H5971不可闖過來H2040上到H5927我H3068面前，恐怕我忽然出來擊殺H6555他們。 25於是摩西H4872下到H3381百姓H5971那裡告訴H559他們。


Jamieson Fausset Brown Bible Commentary
 1   ARRIVAL AT SINAI. (Exo. 19:1-25)
In the third month--according to Jewish usage, the first day of that month--"same day."--It is added, to mark the time more explicitly, that is, forty-five days after Egypt--one day spent on the mount (Exod 19:3), one returning the people's answer (Exod 19:7-Exod 19:8), three days of preparation, making the whole time fifty days from the first passover to the promulgation of the law. Hence the feast of pentecost, that is, the fiftieth day, was the inauguration of the Old Testament church, and the divine wisdom is apparent in the selection of the same reason for the institution of the New Testament church (John 1:17; Acts 2:1).

 2   were come to the desert of Sinai--The desert has its provinces, or divisions, distinguished by a variety of names; and the "desert of Sinai" is that wild and desolate region which occupies the very center of the peninsula, comprising the lofty range to which the mount of God belongs. It is a wilderness of shaggy rocks of porphyry and red granite, and of valleys for the most part bare of verdure.
and there Israel camped before the mount--Sinai, so called from Seneh, or acacia bush. It is now called Jebel Musa. Their way into the interior of the gigantic cluster was by Wady Feiran, which would lead the bulk of the hosts with their flocks and herds into the high valleys of Jebel Musa, with their abundant springs, especially into the great thoroughfare of the desert--the longest, widest, and most continuous of all the valleys, the Wady-es-Sheikh, while many would be scattered among the adjacent valleys; so that thus secluded from the world in a wild and sublime amphitheatre of rocks, they "camped before the mount." "In this valley--a long flat valley--about a quarter of a mile in breadth, winding northwards, Israel would find ample room for their encampment. Of all the wadys in that region, it seems the most suitable for a prolonged sojourn. The 'goodly tents' of Israel could spread themselves without limit" [BONAR].

 3   Moses went up unto God--the Shekinah--within the cloud (Exod 33:20; John 1:18).
Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, &c.--The object for which Moses went up was to receive and convey to the people the message contained in these verses, and the purport of which was a general announcement of the terms on which God was to take the Israelites into a close and peculiar relation to Himself. In thus negotiating between God and His people, the highest post of duty which any mortal man was ever called to occupy, Moses was still but a servant. The only Mediator is Jesus Christ [1Tim 2:5; Heb 12:24].

 6   ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests--As the priestly order was set apart from the common mass, so the Israelites, compared with other people, were to sustain the same near relation to God; a community of spiritual sovreigns.
an holy nation--set apart to preserve the knowledge and worship of God.

 7   Moses came and called for the elders of the people--The message was conveyed to the mighty multitude through their elders, who, doubtless, instructed them in the conditions required. Their unanimous acceptance was conveyed through the same channel to Moses, and by him reported to the Lord. Ah! how much self-confidence did their language betray! How little did they know what spirit they were of!

 9   The Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I come . . . in a thick cloud, &c.--The deepest impressions are made on the mind through the medium of the senses; and so He who knew what was in man signalized His descent at the inauguration of the ancient church, by all the sensible tokens of august majesty that were fitted to produce the conviction that He is the great and terrible God. The whole multitude must have anticipated the event with feelings of intense solemnity and awe. The extraordinary preparations enjoined, the ablutions and rigid abstinence they were required to observe, the barriers erected all round the base of the mount, and the stern penalties annexed to the breach of any of the conditions, all tended to create an earnest and solemn expectation which increased as the appointed day drew near.

 16   on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, &c.--The descent of God was signalized by every object imagination can conceive connected with the ideas of grandeur and of awe. But all was in keeping with the character of the law about to be proclaimed. As the mountain burned with fire, God was exhibited as a consuming fire to the transgressors of His law. The thunder and lightning, more awful amid the deep stillness of the region and reverberating with terrific peals among the mountains, would rouse the universal attention; a thick cloud was an apt emblem of the dark and shadowy dispensation (compare Matt 17:5).
the voice of a trumpet--This gave the scene the character of a miraculous transaction, in which other elements than those of nature were at work, and some other than material trumpet was blown by other means than human breath.

 17   Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God--Wady-er-Raheh, where they stood, has a spacious sandy plain; immediately in front of Es Suksafeh, considered by ROBINSON to be the mount from which the law was given. "We measured it, and estimate the whole plain at two geographical miles long, and ranging in breadth from one-third to two-thirds of a mile, or as equivalent to a surface of one square mile. This space is nearly doubled by the recess on the west, and by the broad and level area of Wady-es-Sheikh on the east, which issues at right angles to the plain, and is equally in view of the front and summit of the mount. The examination convinced us that here was space enough to satisfy all the requisitions of the Scripture narrative, so far as it relates to the assembling of the congregation to receive the law. Here, too, one can see the fitness of the injunction to set bounds around the mount, that neither man nor beast might approach too near, for it rises like a perpendicular wall." But Jebel Musa, the old traditional Sinai, and the highest peak, has also a spacious valley, Wady Sebaiyeh, capable of holding the people. It is not certain on which of these two they stood.

 21   the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people--No sooner had Moses proceeded a little up the mount, than he was suddenly ordered to return, in order to keep the people from breaking through to gaze--a course adopted to heighten the impressive solemnity of the scene. The strict injunctions renewed to all, whatever their condition, at a time and in circumstances when the whole multitude of Israel were standing at the base of the mount, was calculated in the highest degree to solemnize and awe every heart.