Acts 7:33

33 ADONAI said to him, 'Take off your sandals, because the place where you are standing is holy ground.

Acts 7:33 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 7:33

Then said the Lord to him
To Moses, who through curiosity had made too near an approach:

put off thy shoes from thy feet;
in token of humility, obedience, and reverence:

for the place where thou standest is holy ground;
not really, but relatively, on account of the divine presence in it, and only so long as that continued.

Acts 7:33 In-Context

31 When Moshe saw this, he was amazed at the sight; and as he approached to get a better look, there came the voice of ADONAI,

32 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya'akov.' But Moshe trembled with fear and didn't dare to look.

33 ADONAI said to him, 'Take off your sandals, because the place where you are standing is holy ground.

34 I have clearly seen how My people are being oppressed in Egypt, I have heard their cry, and I have come down to rescue them, and now I will send you to Egypt.'

35 "This Moshe, whom they rejected, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and judge?' is the very one whom God sent as both ruler and ransomer by means of the angel that appeared to him in the thorn bush.