19:1(iv) In the third month (Sivan, ziv), when the Benai Yisrael were gone forth out of the eretz of Mitzrayim, the same day came they [into] the midbar Sinai.
19:2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come [to] the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the midbar; and there Yisrael camped before the mount.
19:3 UMosheh alah El-ha Elohim vayikra elav YHWH min-ha har lemor:
"ko tomar le veit Ya'akov ve tageid livnei Yisra'el:"
And Mosheh went up unto Elohim, and YHWH (יהוה) called unto him out of the mountain, saying:
" Thus shalt thou speak gently to the Beit Ya'akov, and tell the Benai Yisrael;"
19:4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Mitzrites, and [how] I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey MY Kol indeed, and keep MY Brit, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people: for all the earth [is] Mine:
19:6 And ye shall be unto Me a Mamlakah Kohenim, and an Kadosh nation. These [are] the Devarim which thou shalt speak unto the Benai Yisrael.
19:7(v) And Mosheh came and called for the Ziknei haAm, and laid before their faces all these Devarim which YHWH (יהוה) commanded him.
19:8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that YHWH (יהוה) hath spoken we will do. And Mosheh returned the Devarim of the people unto YHWH (יהוה).
19:9 And YHWH (יהוה) said unto Mosheh:
"Hinnei, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Mosheh told the Devrei of the people unto YHWH (יהוה)."
19:10 And YHWH (יהוה) said unto Mosheh:
Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
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19:11
And be ready against the third day: for the third day YHWH
(יהוה) will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount
Sinai.
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:
19:13 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether [it be] beast or man, it shall not live: when the shofar soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
19:14(S:vi) And Mosheh went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
19:15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at [your] wives.
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Day 19:16
And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that
there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the
mount, and the Kol of the shofar exceeding loud; so that all
the people that [was] in the camp trembled.
19:17 And Mosheh brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with Elohim; and they stood at the takhti (foot, base) of the mount.
19:18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because YHWH (יהוה) descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
19:19 And when the Kol of the shofar sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Mosheh spake, and Elohim answered him by a Kol.
19:20(A:vi, S:vii)
And YHWH (יהוה) came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and YHWH (יהוה) called Mosheh [up] to the top of the mount; and Mosheh went up.
19:21 And YHWH (יהוה) said unto Mosheh:
Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto YHWH (יהוה) to gaze, and many of them perish.
19:22 And let the Kohenim also, which come near to YHWH (יהוה), sanctify themselves, lest YHWH (יהוה) break forth upon them.
19:23 And Mosheh said unto YHWH (יהוה):
"The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
19:24 And YHWH (יהוה) said unto him:
Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aharon with thee: but let not the Kohenim and the people break through to come up unto YHWH (יהוה), lest he break forth upon them.
19:25 So Mosheh went down unto the people, and spake unto them.
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Shemot [Exodus] 19:4
4 ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on wings of eagles, and brought you to Myself.’”
This phrase, I bore you on wings of eagles, is very descriptive of YHWH’s love and care, and especially of His training of His children.
When the young eaglets are at the stage in their lives that they are ready to learn how to fly, the adult eagle will allow one of the young eagles to climb up on its back. Then the adult will take off, mounting higher and higher into the air. At one point, the adult will flip upside down and dump the young off. As the young eagle tumbles toward the earth trying to find its wings, the adult eagle follows it down. At some point, if the young bird has not found its wings, the adult eagle swoops under the young eaglet, catching it, only to mount into the air again to repeat the process. This is a very apt picture of our Heavenly Father’s love and training of His children. He will not allow us to crash to the earth, but there are times in which He dumps us off His back so that we can find our own wings and learn to fly.
Zerubbabel ben Emunah
Mount Sinai is like unto the chuppah תּחתּיtakhti lower, lowest: - beneath (3), depths (3), foot (1), lower (4), lower parts (3), lowest (2), lowest part (1), lowest parts (1), nether (1).
THE LEFT HORN OF Avraham'S RAM WAS BLOWN AT MOUNT SINAI
The desert by nature is vast, empty dried land with no trees, no shade, no buildings to dwell. In such circumstance a person has to be total depend on Hashem. He has totally submit unto the Almighty he cannot merit the words of Torah. And to teach us that just as the desert is endless, so is the Torah without end.
the name "Sinai" is derived from the name of the Babylonian moon-god Sin. It is often referred to as "the mountain" (that is, the mountain par excellence), "the mountain of Elohim" (Hebr.), and "the mountain of YHWH" , and in many other passages it is called "Horeb" The Talmud (Tractate Shabbos 69) cites the source of anti-Semitism using a play on words: The Torah – the source of the Jewish system of laws, values and moral standards – was received at Mount Sinai. The Hebrew pronunciation of "Sinai" is almost identical to the Hebrew word for "hatred" – sinah. "Why was the Torah given on a mountain called Sinai?" asks the Talmud. "Because the great sinah – the tremendous hatred aimed at the Jew – emanates from Sinai." At Sinai Jews were told that there is one God, Who makes moral demands on all of humanity. Consequently, at Sinai the Jewish nation became the target for the hatred of those whose strongest drive is to liberate mankind from the shackles of conscience and morality. At Sinai the Jewish nation was appointed to be "a light unto the nations." There are those who embrace Jews and the Jewish faith because of that light; but there are also those who want the world to be a place of spiritual darkness. They object to morality. Those would-be harbingers of darkness attack the Jews as the lightning rod for their hatred. This "call to Sinai" – the message entrusted to and borne by the Jews – ultimately transforms the world. Yet, it is this very message that draws forth the wrath of those who would give their last ounce of strength to resist it.