who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.

You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain while it blazed with fire to the very heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.

These are the commandments the Lord proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness; and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

Then the Lord appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood over the entrance to the tent.

“There is no one like the God of Jeshurun, who rides across the heavens to help you and on the clouds in his majesty.