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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)

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18 Mount Sinai was covered with smoke,(A) because the Lord descended on it in fire.(B) The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace,(C) and the whole mountain[a] trembled(D) violently.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 19:18 Most Hebrew manuscripts; a few Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint and all the people

The mountains quaked before the Lord, the One of Sinai,
    before the Lord, the God of Israel.(A)

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The mountains quaked(A) before the Lord, the One of Sinai,
    before the Lord, the God of Israel.

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Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down;
    touch the mountains so that they smoke.(A)

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Part your heavens,(A) Lord, and come down;(B)
    touch the mountains, so that they smoke.(C)

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and the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were ended.(A)

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And the temple was filled with smoke(A) from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the temple(B) until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.

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There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed.(A)

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There the angel of the Lord(A) appeared to him in flames of fire(B) from within a bush.(C) Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.

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24 I looked on the mountains, and they were quaking,
    and all the hills moved to and fro.(A)

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24 I looked at the mountains,
    and they were quaking;(A)
    all the hills were swaying.

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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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When you, God, went out(A) before your people,
    when you marched through the wilderness,[a](B)
the earth shook,(C) the heavens poured down rain,(D)
    before God, the One of Sinai,(E)
    before God, the God of Israel.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 68:7 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 19 and 32.

28 and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain and saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of a furnace.(A)

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28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.(A)

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32 who looks on the earth and it trembles,
    who touches the mountains and they smoke.(A)

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32 he who looks at the earth, and it trembles,(A)
    who touches the mountains,(B) and they smoke.(C)

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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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Footnotes

  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

He said:

“The Lord came from Sinai(A)
    and dawned over them from Seir;(B)
    he shone forth(C) from Mount Paran.(D)
He came with[a] myriads of holy ones(E)
    from the south, from his mountain slopes.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 33:2 Or from
  2. Deuteronomy 33:2 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.

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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22 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;(A) and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets(B) and gave them to me.

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17 Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the Israelites.(A)

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17 To the Israelites the glory of the Lord looked like a consuming fire(A) on top of the mountain.

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26 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heaven.”(A)

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26 At that time his voice shook the earth,(A) but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:26 Haggai 2:6