Éxodo 34:30

30 Al ver Aarón y todos los israelitas el rostro resplandeciente de Moisés, tuvieron miedo de acercársele;

Éxodo 34:30 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 34:30

And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses,
&c.] Who very probably met him at the bottom of the mount; these Israelites with Aaron were the princes, as Aben Ezra seems rightly to interpret it, and as appears from the following verse; for Moses could not well be seen by the whole body of the people at once, upon his descent from the mount:

behold, the skin of his face shone;
darted out rays of light and glory all around it, much perhaps in the same manner as the glory about our Lord, and others, is painted by the Romanists:

and they were afraid to come nigh him;
there was something so majestic and striking in it; and perhaps they could not tell whether it foreboded good or evil to them; and this may signify, that as by the light of the law sin is discovered, it fills with a sense of wrath and fear of damnation; and being the ministration of condemnation and death, it is terrifying and killing, though it has a glory in it.

Éxodo 34:30 In-Context

28 Y Moisés se quedó en el monte, con el SEÑOR, cuarenta días y cuarenta noches, sin comer ni beber nada. Allí, en las tablas, escribió los términos del pacto, es decir, los diez mandamientos.

29 Cuando Moisés descendió del monte Sinaí, traía en sus manos las dos tablas de la ley. Pero no sabía que, por haberle hablado el SEÑOR, de su rostro salía un haz de luz.

30 Al ver Aarón y todos los israelitas el rostro resplandeciente de Moisés, tuvieron miedo de acercársele;

31 pero Moisés llamó a Aarón y a todos los jefes, y ellos regresaron para hablar con él.

32 Luego se le acercaron todos los israelitas, y Moisés les ordenó acatar todo lo que el SEÑOR le había dicho en el monte Sinaí.