Exodus 19:21-23

Names of God Bible

²¹ Yahweh said to him, “Go down and warn the people not to force their way through the boundary to see Yahweh, or many of them will die. ²² Even the priests who are allowed to come near Yahweh must set themselves apart as holy, or Yahweh will violently kill them.”

²³ Moses said to Yahweh, “The people can’t come up Mount Sinai, because you warned us yourself to mark off a boundary around the mountain and consider it holy.”