Exodus 20:21

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Summary

Exodus 20:21

And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

The people

Exodus 19:16

Deuteronomy 5:5

Thick

General references

Bible References

The people

And it shall be in the third day, it being in the morning, and there shall be voices, and lightnings, and a heavy cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceedingly strong; and all the people in the camp will tremble.

(I stood between Jehovah and between you in that time to announce to you the word of Jehovah: for ye were afraid on account of the fire and ye went not up into the mount,) saying,

Thick

Then said Solomon, Jehovah spake to dwell in thick clouds.

Then said Solomon, Jehovah said to dwell in thick clouds.

And he will incline the heavens and come down: and gloom under his feet

A cloud and darkness round about him: justice and judgment the preparing of his throne.

Being covered with light as a garment: stretching forth the heavens as a curtain:

Who only having immortality, inhabiting inaccessible light; which none of men saw, nor can see; to whom honour and might forever. Amen.

General references

And Moses alone drawing near to Jehovah: and they shall not draw near; and the people shall not go up with him.

Out of the heavens he caused thee to hear his voice to instruct thee: and upon earth he caused thee to see his great fire, and thou heardest his words from the midst of the fire.

Face to face Jehovah spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire.

Holding fast the face of the throne, he spread his cloud upon it