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Exodus 19:12Exod.19.12

And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, [that ye] go [not] up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:

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Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Tu fixeras au peuple des limites tout à l'entour, et tu diras: Gardez-vous de monter sur la montagne, ou d'en toucher le bord. Quiconque touchera la montagne sera puni de mort.

KJV

And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, [that ye] go [not] up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    prelate? Objection 1: It would seem that no man is bound to correct his prelate. For it is written ( Ex. 19:12 ): "The beast that shall touch the mount shall be stoned," [*Vulg.: 'Everyone that shall touch the mount, dying he shall die.'] and ( 2 Kings 6:7 ) it is related that th…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 107 (Migne)

    narum Scripturarum arcebat, dicens: Scriptum est: Bestia, quae montem tetigerit, lapidibus obruatur (Exod. XIX, 12) . Propterea, fratres, abite, et primum discite vos mente componere, ut moribus emendatis digni sitis cum Moyse Dei sermones in montis cacumine audire. Nemo enim De…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 133 (Migne)

    hostes ascendere, per Moysen prohibuit, dicens: Ne ascendatis, ne cadatis: non enim sum vobiscum (Exod. XIX, 12) . Iratum se indicat, et tamen ab interitu, quem merebantur, eos cavere monet. Sic plerumque parvulo suo delinquenti mater irascitur, increpat eum, et irata verberat…

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