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


In Context

12 You shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, 'Be careful that you don't go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.

13 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.|

14 Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

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

16 It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.

17 Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:15He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not near your wives.

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 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.