Remove the sandals from your feet for the place where you are standing is holy ground contemporary english version god replied don t come any closer.
Removing sandals in the bible.
Stephen s address to the sanhedrin 32 i am the god of your fathers the god of abraham isaac and jacob moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.
Rather it was the presence of the holy god that made it holy.
I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them.
Christian standard bible do not come closer he said.
And both the sandal and the.
By removing a shoe in the ancient middle east a person can be seen to be offering vulnerability putting themselves at the mercy of the recipient.
Take off your sandals the ground where you are standing is holy.
We have express notice of the thong authorized version shoe latchet in several passages notably genesis 14 23.
God reminds the israelites that their clothes and their sandals never wore out as they wandered for those 40 years in the desert and this is a most remarkable and important provision.
Bowing before messiah self abasement.
Good news translation god said do not come any closer.
And joshua did so.
34 i have indeed seen the oppression of my people in egypt.
By asking moses to take off his shoes god is preparing moses for this encounter and instructing him in the art of humility.
Mark 1 7 sandals were worn by all classes of society in palestine even by the very poor.
The captain of the lord s host said to joshua remove your sandals from your feet for the place where you are standing is holy and joshua did so.
It consisted simply of a sole attached to the foot by thongs.
36 bible verses about shoes.
It was not that the actual ground on which moses stood was holy.
God has not spoken directly with anyone in the bible since the patriarch jacob.
He will baptize you with the holy spirit and fire.
But he who is coming after me is mightier than i and i am not fit to remove his sandals.
Was the article ordinarily used by the hebrews for protecting the feet.
33 then the lord said to him take off your sandals for the place where you are standing is holy ground.