15He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not near your wives.


In Context

12 And thou shalt appoint certain limits to the people round about, and thou shalt say to them: Take heed you go not up into the mount, and that ye touch not the borders thereof: every one that toucheth the mount dying he shall die.

13 No hands shall touch him, but he shall be stoned to death, or shall be shot through with arrows: whether it be beast, or man, he shall not live. When the trumpet shall begin to sound, then let them go up into the mount.

14 And Moses came down from the mount to the people, and sanctified them. And when they had washed their garments,

15 He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not near your wives.

16 And now the third day was come, and the morning appeared: and behold thunders began to be heard, and lightning to flash, and a very thick cloud to cover the mount, and the noise of the trumpet sounded exceeding loud, and the people that was in the camp, feared.

17 And when Moses had brought them forth to meet God from the place of the camp, they stood at the bottom of the mount.

Exodus 19:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:15And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at [your] wives.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

19:15Then he said to the people, "Prepare yourselves for the third day. Abstain from sexual relations."

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:15And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not near a woman.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:15And he said to the people, Be ready for the third day; do not come near your wives.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:15And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not near a woman.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:15And he said to the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:15He said to the people, |Be ready by the third day. Don't have sexual relations with a woman.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:15and he saith unto the people, 'Be ye prepared for the third day, come not nigh unto a woman.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:15And he said to the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.