⁵ And he said, Do not come near: take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy.

¹⁵ And the captain of the Lord's army said to Joshua, Take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy. And Joshua did so.

³³ And the Lord said, Take off the shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy.

¹² And let limits be marked out for the people round the mountain, and say to them, Take care not to go up the mountain or near the sides of it: whoever puts his foot on the mountain will certainly come to his death:

¹ Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.

¹⁶ And Jacob, awaking from his sleep, said, Truly, the Lord is in this place and I was not conscious of it.

¹⁷ And fear came on him, and he said, This is a holy place; this is nothing less than the house of God and the doorway of heaven.

²¹ And the Lord said to Moses, Go down and give the people orders to keep back, for fear that a great number of them, forcing their way through to see the Lord, may come to destruction.

³ Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord said, I will be holy in the eyes of all those who come near to me, and I will be honoured before all the people. And Aaron said nothing.

²⁰ For the order which said, If the mountain is touched even by a beast, the beast is to be stoned, seemed hard to them;