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Exodus 19:20

MosesMount Sinai

18 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.

19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.

And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

22 And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.

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BSB
The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the summit. So Moses went up,
KJV
And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
WEB
The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. The LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
ASV
And Jehovah came down upon mount Sinai, to the top of the mount: and Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
DARBY
And Jehovah came down on mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain; and Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
BLB
And YHWH descended upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And YHWH called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses ascended.
ÅB
Og Herren steg ned på Sinai berg, på fjellets topp; og Herren kalte Moses opp på fjellets topp, og Moses steg opp.
OTB
Herren steg ned til toppen av Sinai-fjellet og kalte Moses til toppen av fjellet, og Moses gikk opp.
B1930
Og Herren steg ned på Sinai berg, på fjellets topp; og Herren kalte Moses op på fjellets topp, og Moses steg op.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Nehemiah 9:13

    Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:

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  • Exodus 24:18

    And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

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  • Exodus 34:4

    And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.

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  • Exodus 24:12–13

    And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

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  • Exodus 19:11

    And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

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  • Exodus 19:3

    And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;

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  • Psalms 81:7

    Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

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  • Exodus 34:2

    And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.

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