Removing Sandals In The Bible

By highlighting the centrality of humility god is establishing a pattern for future generations.

Removing sandals in the bible.

The captain of the lord s host said to joshua remove your sandals from your feet for the place where you are standing is holy and joshua did so. The direction to moses to remove his shoes was in conformity with what was well known to moses for having been brought up in egypt he would have known that the egyptian priests observed the custom in their temples. God reminds the israelites that their clothes and their sandals never wore out as they wandered for those 40 years in the desert and this is a most remarkable and important provision. Was the article ordinarily used by the hebrews for protecting the feet.

It was not that the actual ground on which moses stood was holy. But he who is coming after me is mightier than i and i am not fit to remove his sandals. It consisted simply of a sole attached to the foot by thongs. 36 bible verses about shoes.

Good news translation god said do not come any closer. Humility and faith are inseparable. By removing a shoe in the ancient middle east a person can be seen to be offering vulnerability putting themselves at the mercy of the recipient. Take off your sandals the ground where you are standing is holy.

Mark 1 7 sandals were worn by all classes of society in palestine even by the very poor. We have express notice of the thong authorized version shoe latchet in several passages notably genesis 14 23. And both the sandal and the. And joshua did so.

Rather it was the presence of the holy god that made it holy. Christian standard bible do not come closer he said. Remove the sandals from your feet for the place where you are standing is holy ground contemporary english version god replied don t come any closer. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them.

By asking moses to take off his shoes god is preparing moses for this encounter and instructing him in the art of humility. God has not spoken directly with anyone in the bible since the patriarch jacob. 34 i have indeed seen the oppression of my people in egypt. Stephen s address to the sanhedrin 32 i am the god of your fathers the god of abraham isaac and jacob moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.