Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
New American Standard Bible
So the people stood at a distance, while Moses approached
King James Version
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
Holman Bible
And the people remained standing at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.
International Standard Version
Then the people stood at a distance, and Moses approached the thick cloud where God was.
A Conservative Version
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
American Standard Version
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
Amplified
So the people stood at a [safe] distance, but Moses approached the thick cloud where God was.
Bible in Basic English
And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud where God was.
Darby Translation
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the obscurity where God was.
Julia Smith Translation
And the people will stand from far off, and Moses will draw near to the darkness where God is there.
King James 2000
And the people stood far off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the people stood at a distance, and Moses approached the very thick cloud where God was.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the people stood afar off, and Moses went into the thick cloud where God was.
NET Bible
The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.
New Heart English Bible
The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
The Emphasized Bible
So then the people stood afar off, and, Moses, approached unto the thick gloom, where God was.
Webster
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
World English Bible
The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
Youngs Literal Translation
And the people stand afar off, and Moses hath drawn nigh unto the thick darkness where God is.
Themes
Darkness » Illustrative of » Greatness and unsearchableness of God
Darkness » Miraculous » At mount sinai
Fellowship, with God » With Christ » Moses' fellowship with God
God » Fellowship with » Moses' fellowship with God
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Moses' fellowship with God
Interlinear
`amad
Rachowq
Nagash
`araphel
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 20:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
The People's Reaction
20 And Moses said to the people, Do not fear, for God has come to test you, and so that His fear may be before your faces, so that you may not sin. 21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was. 22 And Jehovah said to Moses, So you shall say to the sons of Israel, You have seen that I have talked with you from the heavens.
Names
Cross References
1 Kings 8:12
And Solomon said, Jehovah said that He would dwell in the thick darkness.
Psalm 18:9
And He bowed the heavens and came down, and darkness was under His feet.
Psalm 97:2
Clouds and darkness are all around Him; righteousness and judgment are the foundation of His throne.
Exodus 19:16-17
And it happened on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mountain. And the voice of the trumpet was exceedingly loud, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
Deuteronomy 5:5
(I stood between Jehovah and you at that time, to show you the Word of Jehovah, for you were afraid because of the fire, and did not go up into the mountain,) saying,
Deuteronomy 5:22
Jehovah spoke these words to all your assembly in the mountain out of the midst of the fire of the cloud and of the thick darkness with a great voice. And He added no more. And He wrote them in two tablets of stone and delivered them to me.
2 Chronicles 6:1
And Solomon said, Jehovah has said that He would dwell in the thick darkness.
Psalm 18:12
At the brightness before Him, His dark clouds passed through, hailstones and coals of fire passed.
Psalm 104:2
covering Yourself with light as with a robe; and stretching out the heavens like a curtain;
1 Timothy 6:16
who alone has immortality, dwelling in light which cannot be approached, whom no one of men have seen, nor can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.