Exode 34:30

30 Mais Aaron et tous les enfants d'Israël virent Moïse, et voici, la peau de son visage rayonnait, et ils craignirent d'approcher de lui.

Exode 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.

Exode 34:30 In-Context

28 Et Moïse fut là avec l'Éternel quarante jours et quarante nuits; il ne mangea point de pain et ne but point d'eau; et l'Éternel écrivit sur les tables les paroles de l'alliance, les dix paroles.

29 Or, lorsque Moïse descendit de la montagne de Sinaï, les deux tables du Témoignage étant dans la main de Moïse, qui descendait de la montagne, Moïse ne savait point que la peau de son visage était devenue rayonnante, pendant qu'il parlait avec Dieu.

30 Mais Aaron et tous les enfants d'Israël virent Moïse, et voici, la peau de son visage rayonnait, et ils craignirent d'approcher de lui.

31 Alors Moïse les appela, et Aaron et tous les principaux de l'assemblée revinrent vers lui, et Moïse leur parla.

32 Après cela, tous les enfants d'Israël s'approchèrent, et il leur commanda tout ce que l'Éternel lui avait dit sur le mont Sinaï.