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 the third day in the morning there was thunder, and lightning and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the horn waxed exceeding loud, and all the people that was in the host was afraid.

And I stood between the LORD and you the same time, to show you the saying of the LORD. For ye were afraid of the fire and therefore went not up into the mount. And he said,

Thick

Then spake Solomon, "The LORD said that he would dwell in darkness.

Then Solomon said, "The LORD hath spoken it, how that he will dwell in darkness.

He bowed the heavens, also, and came down, and it was dark under his feet. {TYNDALE: And he bowed heaven and came down, and darkness underneath his feet.}

Clouds and darkness are round about him; righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his seat.

Thou deckest thyself with light, as it were with a garment, and spreadest out the heaven like a curtain -

which only hath immortality, and dwelleth in light that no man can attain, whom never man saw, neither can see: unto whom be honour and rule everlasting. Amen.

General references

And Moses went himself alone unto the LORD, but they came not nigh, neither came the people up with him.

Out of heaven he made thee hear his voice to nurture thee, and upon earth he showed thee his great fire, and thou heardest his words out of the fire.

The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the fire.

He holdeth back his stool, that it can not be seen, and spreadeth his clouds before it.