Exodus 19:18
16 On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
17 Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.
Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
19 And as the sound of the ram’s horn grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him in the thunder.
20 The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the summit. So Moses went up,
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- BSB
- Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
- KJV
- And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
- WEB
- All of Mount Sinai smoked, because the LORD descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
- ASV
- And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
- DARBY
- And the whole of mount Sinai smoked, because Jehovah descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended as the smoke of a furnace; and the whole mountain shook greatly.
- BLB
- And Mount Sinai smoked—all of it—because YHWH descended on it in the fire. And its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and all the mountain trembled greatly.
- ÅB
- Og hele Sinai berg sto i røyk, fordi Herren var steget ned på det i ild, og røyken av det steg opp som røyken av en ovn, og hele fjellet skalv.
- OTB
- Sinai-fjellet var dekket av røyk fordi Herren steg ned på det i ild. Røyken steg som røyken fra en ovn, og hele fjellet ristet voldsomt.
- B1930
- Og hele Sinai berg stod i røk, fordi Herren var steget ned på det i ild, og røken av det steg op som røken av en ovn, og hele fjellet skalv.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Judges 5:5
The mountains quaked before the LORD, the One of Sinai, before the LORD, the God of Israel.
Read in contextPsalms 144:5
Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
Read in contextRevelation 15:8
And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power; and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.
Read in contextExodus 3:2
There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.
Read in contextGenesis 19:28
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
Read in contextPsalms 68:7–8
O God, when You went out before Your people, when You marched through the wasteland, Selah
Read in contextJeremiah 4:24
I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.
Read in contextPsalms 104:32
He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.
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