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Exodus 24:17

Israel
God's holiness

15 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.

16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

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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BSB
And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.
KJV
And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
WEB
The appearance of the LORD’s glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
ASV
And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
DARBY
And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain, before the eyes of the children of Israel.
BLB
And the sight of the glory of YHWH [was] like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the sons of Israel.
ÅB
Og Herrens herlighet var å se til for Israels barns øyne som en fortærende ild på fjellets topp.
OTB
For israelittene fremsto Herrens herlighet som en fortærende ild på toppen av fjellet.
B1930
Og Herrens herlighet var å se til for Israels barns øine som en fortærende ild på fjellets topp.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Hebrews 12:29

    For our God is a consuming fire.

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  • Deuteronomy 4:24

    For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

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  • Exodus 3:2

    And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

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  • Hebrews 12:18

    For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

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  • Deuteronomy 4:36

    Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

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  • Habakkuk 3:4–5

    And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.

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  • Exodus 19:18

    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.

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  • Ezekiel 1:27

    And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.

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