Êxodo 34:30

30 Quando Arão e todos os israelitas viram Moisés com o rosto resplandecente, tiveram medo de aproximar-se dele.

Êxodo 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.

Êxodo 34:30 In-Context

28 Moisés ficou ali com o SENHOR quarenta dias e quarenta noites, sem comer pão e sem beber água. E escreveu nas tábuas as palavras da aliança: os Dez Mandamentos.

29 Ao descer do monte Sinai com as duas tábuas da aliança nas mãos, Moisés não sabia que o seu rosto resplandecia por ter conversado com o SENHOR.

30 Quando Arão e todos os israelitas viram Moisés com o rosto resplandecente, tiveram medo de aproximar-se dele.

31 Ele, porém, os chamou; Arão e os líderes da comunidade atenderam, e Moisés falou com eles.

32 Depois, todos os israelitas se aproximaram, e ele lhes transmitiu todos os mandamentos que o SENHOR lhe tinha dado no monte Sinai.