thy nakedness Leviticus 10:3 Psalms 89:7 Ecclesiastes 5:1 Hebrews 12:28 Hebrews 12:29 1 Peter 1:16
Nothing could be more appropriate as the commencement of the book of the covenant than these regulations for public worship. The rules for the buil...
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy (p) nakedness be not discovered thereon. (p) Which might be by his stooping or flying up...
Exodus 20:22-26 E. Laws of Worship. This begins the Book of the Covenant, a small collection of religious and moral laws. The reference to God as...
by steps. Only exposes nakedness. "I will come unto thee " ( Exodus 20:24 ) is the essence of worship. Our approach is quite secondary. Whether...
26. Neither shalt thou go up. When God had prescribed modesty to the priests in their whole life, and in their private actions, no wonder th...
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon. Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar -...
Neither shalt thou go up, &c.— God forbids the altar to be erected high, with many steps, as were the altars of the heathen celestial deiti...
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon. Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine...
The Ten Commandments (vv. 1-21) Exodus 20-23, containing (1) the Decalogue (Gk. = 'Ten Words' or 'Commandments') and (2) a code of laws regulating...
The Book of the Covenant This section comprises a number of laws designed to regulate the life of an agricultural community living under comparati...
With the same object, to prevent exposure of the person, it is afterwards prescribed that the priests be provided with linen drawers while officiatin...
THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT. (22-26) In the remainder of Exodus 20 , and in the three Chapter s which follow, we have a series of laws delivered by...
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar. — When the dress of the priests had been so arranged that no exposure of the person was possible...
THE LESSER LAW. Exodus 20:18 - Exodus 23:33 . With the close of the Decalogue and its universal obligations, we approach a brief code of laws,...
PART I.--THE LAW OF WORSHIP. Exodus 20:22-26 . It is no vain repetition that this code begins by reasserting the supremacy of the one God. That...
the People Fear; Idols and Altars Exodus 20:18-26 When our Lord was on earth He was so attractive and winsome that the publicans and sinners dr...
Here we have the Ten Words of the moral Law. They are introduced by a proclamation of God concerning Himself: first as to His name, "I am Jehovah"; s...
Is not this altar of earth intended to shew, that as the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof, and nothing of creature property is to be mixe...
REFLECTIONS BLESSED God! do thou enable me to reverence thine holy law, and never to lose sight of that solemn truth, that rather than one jot, or t...
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar ,.... That is, you priests, the sons of Aaron, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem paraphrase...
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon. Ver. 26. That thy nakedness. ] We blush when take...
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar Indeed afterward God appointed an altar ten cubits high. But it is probable they went not up to t...
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (vs.1-17) Before God gives the ten commandments, He makes is abundantly clear that Israel's obedience to law had nothing to...
The Law Concerning Altars. B. C. 1491. ...
He seems to mean the steps of ladders, or others of the same nature, which could suddenly be made, and were proper for their present condition, where...
Yahweh's Instruction Concerning Future Worship ( Exodus 20:22-26 ). In view of their fears, and the commands that He has given in Exodus 20:3-5 ,...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 20:23 . Ye shall not make with Me gods of silver, neither, &c.] We prefer the Massoretic punctuation of this verse, w...
Exodus 20:1 . God spake all these words. In compassion to man, and the increasing weakness of human traditions, it has pleased the infinitely wise...
EXPOSITION THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT , ( Exodus 20:1-2 . Exodus 20:22 , to Exodus 22:1-2 . Exodus 22:23 Exodus 22:23 ). The Decalogu...
The Precept Concerning the Altar
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto Mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon, as would happen with the loose-fitting. clothes then...
Neither shall thou go at by steps unto mine altar — Indeed afterwards God appointed an altar ten cubits high. But it is probable, they went not up...
26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.