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He said,

“The Lord came from Sinai
    and dawned from Seir upon us;[a]
    he shone forth from Mount Paran.
With him were myriads of holy ones,[b]
    at his right, a host of his own.[c](A)

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  1. 33.2 Gk Syr Vg Compare Tg: Heb upon them
  2. 33.2 Cn Compare Gk Sam Syr Vg: MT He came from Ribeboth-kodesh,
  3. 33.2 Cn Compare Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain

11 Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels surrounding the throne and the living creatures and the elders; they numbered myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands,(A)

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God came from Teman,
    the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah
His glory covered the heavens,
    and the earth was full of his praise.(A)

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Lord, when you went out from Seir,
    when you marched from the region of Edom,
the earth trembled,
    and the heavens poured;
    the clouds indeed poured water.(A)
The mountains quaked before the Lord, the One of Sinai,
    before the Lord, the God of Israel.(B)

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14 It was also about these that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “See, the Lord is coming[a] with ten thousands of his holy ones,(A)

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  1. 14 Gk came

For if the message declared through angels proved valid, and every transgression or disobedience received a just penalty,(A)

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53 You are the ones who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet you have not kept it.”(A)

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17 With mighty chariotry, twice ten thousand,
    thousands upon thousands,
    the Lord came from Sinai into the holy place.[a](A)

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  1. 68.17 Cn: Heb The Lord among them Sinai in the holy (place)

O God, when you went out before your people,
    when you marched through the wilderness, Selah(A)
the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain
    at the presence of God, the God of Sinai,
    at the presence of God, the God of Israel.(B)

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The Purpose of the Law

19 Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring[a] would come to whom the promise had been made, and it was ordained through angels by a mediator.(A)

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  1. 3.19 Gk seed

18 Now all of Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke, because the Lord had descended upon it in fire; the smoke went up like the smoke of a kiln, while the whole mountain shook violently.(A) 19 As the blast of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses would speak and God would answer him in thunder.(B) 20 When the Lord descended upon Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, the Lord summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

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20 (For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned to death.”(A)

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and to give relief to the afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels(A)

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10 For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the things written in the book of the law.”(A)

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For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation,[a] much more does the ministry of justification abound in glory!(A)

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  1. 3.9 Other ancient authorities read If the ministry of condemnation constituted glory

Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stone tablets,[a] came in glory so that the people of Israel could not gaze at Moses’s face because of the glory of his face, a glory now set aside,(A)

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  1. 3.7 Gk on stones

Judgment before the Ancient One

As I watched,
thrones were set in place,
    and an Ancient One[a] took his throne;
his clothing was white as snow
    and the hair of his head like pure wool;
his throne was fiery flames,
    and its wheels were burning fire.(A)
10 A stream of fire issued
    and flowed out from his presence.
A thousand thousands served him,
    and ten thousand times ten thousand stood attending him.
The court sat in judgment,
    and the books were opened.(B)

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  1. 7.9 Aram an Ancient of Days

Moses the Mediator of God’s Will

22 “These words the Lord spoke with a loud voice to your whole assembly at the mountain, out of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, and he added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.(A)

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