Exodus 20:18

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All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking– and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.

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  • Exod 19:16-18 : 16 On the third day in the morning there was thunder and lightning and a dense cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud horn; all the people who were in the camp trembled. 17 Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain. 18 Now Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke because the LORD had descended on it in fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a great furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.
  • Ps 139:7-8 : 7 Where can I go to escape your Spirit? Where can I flee to escape your presence? 8 If I were to ascend to heaven, you would be there. If I were to sprawl out in Sheol, there you would be.
  • Jer 23:23 : 23 Do you people think that I am some local deity and not the transcendent God?” the LORD asks.
  • Heb 12:18-19 : 18 For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind 19 and the blast of a trumpet and a voice uttering words such that those who heard begged to hear no more.

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  • Exod 20:19-22
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    19They said to Moses,“You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.”

    20Moses said to the people,“Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you so that you do not sin.”

    21The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

    22The Altar The LORD said to Moses:“Thus you will tell the Israelites:‘You yourselves have seen that I have spoken with you from heaven.

  • Exod 19:16-21
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    82%

    16On the third day in the morning there was thunder and lightning and a dense cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud horn; all the people who were in the camp trembled.

    17Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain.

    18Now Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke because the LORD had descended on it in fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a great furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.

    19When the sound of the horn grew louder and louder, Moses was speaking and God was answering him with a voice.

    20The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain, and the LORD summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

    21The LORD said to Moses,“Go down and solemnly warn the people, lest they force their way through to the LORD to look, and many of them perish.

  • Deut 4:11-12
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    11You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it and yet dark with a thick cloud.

    12Then the LORD spoke to you from the middle of the fire; you heard speech but you could not see anything– only a voice was heard.

  • Heb 12:18-21
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    18For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind

    19and the blast of a trumpet and a voice uttering words such that those who heard begged to hear no more.

    20For they could not bear what was commanded:“If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”

    21In fact, the scene was so terrifying that Moses said,“I shudder with fear.”

  • Exod 19:11-14
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    11and be ready for the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

    12You must set boundaries for the people all around, saying,‘Take heed to yourselves not to go up on the mountain nor touch its edge. Whoever touches the mountain will surely be put to death!

    13No hand will touch him– but he will surely be stoned or shot through, whether a beast or a human being; he must not live.’ When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast they may go up on the mountain.”

    14Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.

  • Deut 18:16
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    16This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the LORD your God:“Please do not make us hear the voice of the LORD our God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die.”

  • Deut 5:22-23
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    22The Narrative of the Sinai Revelation and Israel’s Response The LORD said these things to your entire assembly at the mountain from the middle of the fire, the cloud, and the darkness with a loud voice, and that was all he said. Then he inscribed the words on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

    23Then, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness while the mountain was ablaze, all your tribal leaders and elders approached me.

  • Exod 19:23-24
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    23Moses said to the LORD,“The people are not able to come up to Mount Sinai, because you solemnly warned us,‘Set boundaries for the mountain and set it apart.’”

    24The LORD said to him,“Go, get down, and come up, and Aaron with you, but do not let the priests and the people force their way through to come up to the LORD, lest he break through against them.”

  • Exod 24:2
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    2Moses alone may come near the LORD, but the others must not come near, nor may the people go up with him.”

  • Exod 19:8-9
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    8and all the people answered together,“All that the LORD has commanded we will do!” So Moses brought the words of the people back to the LORD.

    9The LORD said to Moses,“I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and so that they will always believe in you.” And Moses told the words of the people to the LORD.

  • Exod 24:16-17
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    16The glory of the LORD resided on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called to Moses from within the cloud.

    17Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in plain view of the people.

  • Exod 34:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2Be prepared in the morning, and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and station yourself for me there on the top of the mountain.

    3No one is to come up with you; do not let anyone be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks or the herds may graze in front of that mountain.”

  • Acts 7:31
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    31When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached to investigate, there came the voice of the Lord,

  • Exod 20:1
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    1The Decalogue God spoke all these words:

  • Exod 33:10
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    10When all the people would see the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people, each one at the entrance of his own tent, would rise and worship.

  • Exod 20:17
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    17“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

  • Exod 35:20
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    20So the whole community of the Israelites went out from the presence of Moses.

  • Deut 5:4-5
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    4The LORD spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire.

    5(I was standing between the LORD and you at that time to reveal the LORD’s message to you, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.) He said:

  • Exod 33:8
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    8And when Moses went out to the tent, all the people would get up and stand at the entrance to their tents and watch Moses until he entered the tent.

  • Exod 34:30
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    30When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to approach him.

  • Exod 32:9
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    9Then the LORD said to Moses:“I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are!

  • Exod 19:3
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  • Num 14:14
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  • Exod 32:19
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    19When he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became extremely angry. He threw the tablets from his hands and broke them to pieces at the bottom of the mountain.

  • Neh 9:18
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    18even when they made a cast image of a calf for themselves and said,‘This is your God who brought you up from Egypt,’ or when they committed atrocious blasphemies.

  • Num 20:6
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  • Deut 4:15
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