Exodus 3:3

3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”

Exodus 3:3 in Other Translations

3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.

3 And Moses said, "I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned."

3 “This is amazing,” Moses said to himself. “Why isn’t that bush burning up? I must go see it.”

3 Moses said, "What's going on here? I can't believe this! Amazing! Why doesn't the bush burn up?"

3 So Moses thought: I must go over and look at this remarkable sight. Why isn't the bush burning up?

Exodus 3:3 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 3:3

And Moses said, I will now turn aside
From the place where he was, and the flock he was feeding, and get nearer to the bush, which seems to have been on one side of him and not directly before him: and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt;
inquire into, and find out, if he could, the reason of this strange and amazing sight; how it could be that a bush should be on fire and yet not burnt up, which might have been expected would have been destroyed at once; for what is a thorn or bramble bush to devouring flames of fire, as these appeared to be?

Exodus 3:3 In-Context

1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.

3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”

4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.”

5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”