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Exodus ch.3.
There's precedent for it in the book of Exodus: when God speaks to Moses from the burning bush, Moses is instructed to take off his shoes for he is standing on holy ground.
As Moses was standing on holy ground , at the time of the burning bush. he was told to remouve his shoes.
shoes, for the ground you are standing on is holy.
The angel told Moses to take off his shoes. The reason why is because it was holy ground.
In the Bible, Moses is asked to take off his shoes because he was standing on holy ground. Removing his shoes was a sign of respect and reverence for God's presence.
That ground was holy simply because God was there in the form of the burning bush. That bush was rooted to the ground that Moses was standing on at that time. God is holy, He was touching the ground, there for the ground then also became holy.
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The Lord told Moses to take off his sandals, for the ground he was standing on was holy, and to go to Pharaoh to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.
The book of Exodus IS one of the Jewish holy texts. It does not "observe" holy texts.
The fire in the bush without the bush being consumed symbolizes the divine holiness which is inherent to the nature of God. When Moses came near the bush, the voice of the Lord spoke to him and told him to remove his shoes, for the ground on which he was standing was holy ground. Fire as a metaphor of the holiness of God (fire purifies, holiness is purity and perfection) occurs from time to time in the Old Testament.
The Book of Exodus.