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Exodus 3:5

“He said, “Do not come near here. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.””

Exodus 3:5 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Quotation · Acts 7:33

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Stephen quotes the command from the bush with one difference: he says “holy land” where the Hebrew says “holy ground.”

Formula: εἶπεν δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ κύριος “and the Lord said to him” (Acts 7:33)

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Greek of the New Testament: εἶπεν δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ κύριος Λῦσον τὸ ὑπόδημα τῶν ποδῶν σου ὁ γὰρ τόπος ἐφ’ ᾧ ἕστηκας γῆ ἁγία ἐστίν

Hebrew (Masoretic text): וַיֹּאמֶר אַל תִּקְרַב הֲלֹם שַׁל נְעָלֶיךָ מֵעַל רַגְלֶיךָ כִּי הַמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר אַתָּה עוֹמֵד עָלָיו אַדְמַת קֹדֶשׁ הוּא

Septuagint (Exodus 3:4-5 in the Septuagint numbering): ὡς δὲ ἴδεν κύριος ὅτι προσάγει ἰδεῖν, ἐκάλεσεν αὐτὸν κύριος ἐκ τοῦ βάτου λέγων Μωυσῆ Μωυσῆ. ὁ δὲ εἶπεν Τί ἐστιν ὁ δὲ εἶπεν Μὴ ἐγγίσῃς ὧδε· λῦσαι τὸ ὑπόδημα ἐκ τῶν ποδῶν σου, ὁ γὰρ τόπος ἐν ᾧ σὺ ἕστηκας γῆ ἁγία ἐστίν.

The Greek of the NT matches the Septuagint word for word in 6 consecutive words: “τῶν ποδῶν σου ὁ γὰρ τόπος.”

Septuagint, Swete’s text, First1KGreek transcription (with reading errors), CC BY-SA 4.0

Allusion · Joshua 5:15

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Both texts give the same command: “Take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy”; to Moses at the bush and to Joshua before the chief of the army of YHWH.

They share words that are rare in the original, without a quotation.

  • שַׁלshalH5394שַׁלshalH5394“take off, drive out, drop off”
  • נְעָלֶיnealeH5275נַעַלְnaalH5275“sandal”
  • מָּקוֹםmakomH4725מָּקוֹםmakomH4725“place”
  • קֹדֶשׁkodeshH6944קֹדֶשׁkodeshH6944“holiness; holy place”

Exodus 3:5, word by word

He saidיֹּאמֶרyomer

say

To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.

Where else “yomer” appears
come nearתִּקְרַבtikrav

come near

To come near to someone or something.

Where else “tikrav” appears
hereהֲלֹםhalom

here, hither

Here, to this place; this far.

Where else “halom” appears
Takeשַׁלshal

drop off

Something coming loose: a sandal, an axe-head, a falling olive.

Where else “shal” appears
your sandalsנְעָלֶיneale

sandal

Sandal.

Where else “neale” appears
your feetרַגְלֶיragle

foot

The part of the body that supports and makes one walk.

Where else “ragle” appears
the placeמָּקוֹםmakom

place

A place, a spot.

Where else “makom” appears
are standingעוֹמֵדomed

stand

To be on one's feet, firm in a place, or to rise up to act.

Where else “omed” appears
holyקֹדֶשׁkodesh

holy thing

Something set apart for God: a day, an offering.

Where else “kodesh” appears
groundאַדְמַתadmat

soil

Farmland, or dust.

Where else “admat” appears

Parallel passages

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Quotation · Acts 7:33

Stephen quotes the command from the bush with one difference: he says “holy land” where the Hebrew says “holy ground.”

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Exodus 3:5

5He said, “Do not come near here. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

Acts 7:33

33And the Lord said to him, ‘Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.

The context

4When YHWH saw that he had turned aside to look, Elohim called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”

5 · This verse (above)

6And he said, “I am the Elohim of your father, the Elohim of Abraham, the Elohim of Isaac, and the Elohim of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at Elohim.

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