Exodus 20:18

Webster's Bible (1833)

All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.

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  • Exod 19:16-18 : 16 It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled. 17 Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain. 18 Mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
  • Ps 139:7-8 : 7 Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence? 8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
  • Jer 23:23 : 23 Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off?
  • Heb 12:18-19 : 18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, tempest, 19 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 20:19-22
    4 verses
    82%

    19 They said to Moses, "Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don't let God speak with us, lest we die."

    20 Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won't sin."

    21 The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

    22 Yahweh said to Moses, "This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: 'You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

  • Exod 19:16-21
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    82%

    16 It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.

    17 Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.

    18 Mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.

    19 When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.

    20 Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

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

  • Deut 4:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11 You came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.

    12 Yahweh spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; only [you heard] a voice.

  • Heb 12:18-21
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    76%

    18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, tempest,

    19 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,

    20 for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned{TR adds "or shot with an arrow" [see Exodus 19:12-13]};"

    21 and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling."

  • Exod 19:11-14
    4 verses
    75%

    11 and be ready against the third day; for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.

    12 You shall set bounds to the people round about, saying, 'Be careful that you don't go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.

    13 No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.' When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain."

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

  • Deut 18:16
    75%

    16 according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.

  • Deut 5:22-23
    2 verses
    74%

    22 These words Yahweh spoke to all your assembly on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. He wrote them on two tables of stone, and gave them to me.

    23 It happened, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;

  • Exod 19:23-24
    2 verses
    74%

    23 Moses said to Yahweh, "The people can't come up to Mount Sinai, for you charged us, saying, 'Set bounds around the mountain, and sanctify it.'"

    24 Yahweh said to him, "Go down and you shall bring Aaron up with you, but don't let the priests and the people break through to come up to Yahweh, lest he break forth on them."

  • Exod 24:2
    74%

    2 Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him."

  • Exod 19:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8 All the people answered together, and said, "All that Yahweh has spoken we will do." Moses reported the words of the people to Yahweh.

    9 Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever." Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.

  • Exod 24:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16 The glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

    17 The appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.

  • Exod 34:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2 Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.

    3 No one shall come up with you; neither let anyone be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mountain."

  • Acts 7:31
    73%

    31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,

  • Exod 20:1
    73%

    1 God{After "God," the Hebrew has the two letters "Aleph Tav" (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, but as a grammatical marker.} spoke all these words, saying,

  • Exod 33:10
    73%

    10 All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.

  • Exod 20:17
    73%

    17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."

  • Exod 35:20
    72%

    20 All the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.

  • Deut 5:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4 Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the midst of the fire,

    5 (I stood between Yahweh and you at that time, to show you the word of Yahweh: for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn't go up onto the mountain;) saying,

  • Exod 33:8
    71%

    8 It happened that when Moses went out to the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.

  • Exod 34:30
    71%

    30 When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.

  • Exod 32:9
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    9 Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and, behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

  • Exod 19:3
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    3 Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him out of the mountain, saying, "This is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:

  • Num 14:14
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    14 and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are in the midst of this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

  • Exod 32:19
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    19 It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

  • Neh 9:18
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    18 Yes, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt, and had committed awful blasphemies;

  • Num 20:6
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    6 Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tent of meeting, and fell on their faces: and the glory of Yahweh appeared to them.

  • Deut 4:15
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    15 Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no manner of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire.

  • Exod 3:5
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    5 He said, "Don't come close. Take off your sandals from off your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground."

  • Num 16:20
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    20 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,