 | William Gay Ballantine - Bible - 1928 - 468 pages
...of Jacob.' Then Moses trembled and did not dare to look closely. The Lord said to him, 'Loose your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground. I have plainly seen the distress of my people in Egypt and I have heard their groans and have come... | |
 | H. L. Ellison - Bibles - 1982 - 220 pages
...bush, "Moses, Moses!" 5 And he said, "Here am I." Then he said, "Do not come near; put off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is 6 holy ground." And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and... | |
 | John C. L. Gibson - Religion - 1985 - 300 pages
...tempest, but of the equally awesome burning bush, saying to him: "Do not come near; put off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground" (Exod. 3:5). The other lesson hidden in these chapters — and now our fourth — is the lesson which,... | |
 | Steven Axelrod, Helen Deese - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 286 pages
...otherwise fully dressed, derives from God's commandment from the burning bush to Moses: "Put off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground" (Exodus 3.5). Giovanni and Giovanna have discarded their slippers because they, too, are standing on holy or... | |
 | Peter Mazar, Robert Baker, Evelyn Kaehler - Holy Week - 1991 - 248 pages
...called to him out of the bush, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here I am." Then he said, "Come no closer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground." He said further, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of... | |
 | Albert Curry Winn - Religion - 1990 - 268 pages
...unapproachableness of God? "Do not come near," said the voice to Moses from the burning bush, "put off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground" (Ex. 3:5). Have you ever found any holy ground in your life? Have you ever experienced a sense of the... | |
 | Philip C. Stine - Religion - 1990 - 170 pages
...and humanity is expressed in the burning bush story of Moses; "Do not come near; put off your shoes, from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground". . . And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. (Ex. 3:5.6) The sacred appeared to Moses... | |
 | Lawrence A. Hoffman - Jewish pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1991 - 36 pages
...reverential awe evoked in Moses, as he watched a bush burn unconsumed and heard God say, "Come no closer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place on...which you are standing is holy ground" (Exodus 3:5). I cannot hope to say all that ought to be said about sacred places, just as 1 cannot hope to put myself... | |
 | Paul King Jewett, Marguerite Shuster - Religion - 1991 - 562 pages
...bush, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here am I. " Then he said, "Do not come near; put off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground. "... Moses said to God, "If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, 'The God of your fathers... | |
 | Paul Nadim Tarazi - Religion - 1991 - 204 pages
...bush, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here am I." Then he said, "Do not come near; put off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground." And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob."... | |
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Come no closer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground. 
