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Exodus 24:10

Israel
God's presence

8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.

9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:

And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.

12 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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BSB
and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
KJV
And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
WEB
They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.
ASV
And they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and as it were the very heaven for clearness.
DARBY
and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were work of transparent sapphire, and as it were the form of heaven for clearness.
BLB
and they saw the God of Israel, and under His feet [was] like the work of a pavement of sapphire, and like the substance of the heavens for purity.
ÅB
Og de så Israels Gud; under hans føtter var det slik som et gulv av gjennomsiktig safirstein og som himmelen selv i klarhet.
OTB
De så Israels Gud, og under hans føtter var det noe som lignet et gulv av safir, klart som himmelen selv.
B1930
Og de så Israels Gud; under hans føtter var det likesom et gulv av gjennemsiktig safirsten og som himmelen selv i klarhet.

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  • John 1:18

    No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

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  • Ezekiel 10:1

    Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

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  • Exodus 33:23

    And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.

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  • Genesis 32:30

    And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

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  • Exodus 33:20

    And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

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  • Ezekiel 1:26–28

    And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.

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  • Isaiah 6:1–5

    In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

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  • Revelation 4:3

    And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

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