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No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.` When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain."
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A Contagious Trespass
Commentators overwhelmingly agree that 'no hand shall touch him' refers to the person who trespassed, not the mountain itself. The violation of God's sacred boundary made the transgressor so 'polluted' or 'accursed' that they were to be killed from a distance (by stoning or arrows), lest the executioner also become defiled. This emphasizes the profound seriousness of approaching a holy God improperly.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Touch it — Rather “touch him.” The person who had touched the mount was not to be touched, since the contact would be pollution.
19th Century
Anglican
There shall not a hand touch it. —This translation gives an entirely wrong sense. The meaning is, beyond all doubt, “There shall n…
16th Century
Protestant
There shall not a hand touch it.215 Those who interpret the particle ב, be, as the adversative 'else' ignorantly pervert the me…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
There shall not a hand touch it The mountain or the border of it, which is repeated so it might be taken notice of; a…
The solemn manner in which the law was delivered was to impress the people with a right sense of the Divine majesty. Also to convince them of their…
