Exodus 19

Exodus 19:3

Went up] Moses nine or ten times goes up to the Lord on Mount Sinai. See Exod. XIX. 3, 7, 8, 10, 14, 20, 21, 25. and Ch. XX. 21. and Ch. XXIV. 3, 12, 13, 15, 18. and Ch. XXXII. 7, 15, 30. and Ch. XXXIII. 6, 7, 21. and Ch. XXXIV. 2, 29, 34.

Exodus 19:19

Moses spake] This speech, not mentioned what it was. But seems to be that recorded, Heb. XII. 21.

Exodus 19:22

Priests] So, v. 24. These Priests probably seeme to be the fathers of the families. The young men, Exod. XXIV. 5. might possibly be of those Primogeniti or First-borne, which God first challenged to himself within one quarter of a year before, Exod. XIII. 2. and Ch. XXII. 29. And for them the Levites were taken in afterwards, Num. III. 12, 13, 40, 41, 45. and Ch. VIII. 18. Or else such as Moses pleased to imploy in slaying and dressing at least of these Sacrifices: Called young men likely, as those servants of the King of Assyria are called in the Original young men, 2 King. XIX. 6.