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Yahweh Descends on Mount Sinai

18 (A)Now Mount Sinai was all in smoke because Yahweh descended upon it (B)in fire; and its smoke ascended like (C)the smoke of a furnace, and (D)the whole mountain trembled violently.

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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

(A)The mountains [a]flowed at the presence of Yahweh,
(B)This Sinai, at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

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  1. Judges 5:5 Or trembled

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

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Then the (A)earth shook and quaked;
And the (B)foundations of the mountains were trembling
And were shaken, because He was angry.

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The earth trembled(A) and quaked,(B)
    and the foundations of the mountains shook;(C)
    they trembled because he was angry.(D)

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He makes Lebanon (A)skip like a calf,
And (B)Sirion like a young wild ox.

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He makes Lebanon leap(A) like a calf,
    Sirion[a](B) like a young wild ox.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 29:6 That is, Mount Hermon

He stood and [a]measured out the earth;
He looked and (A)startled the nations.
So the perpetual mountains were shattered;
The ancient hills [b]collapsed.
His ways are (B)everlasting.

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  1. Habakkuk 3:6 Or shook
  2. Habakkuk 3:6 Or sank down; lit bowed

He stood, and shook the earth;
    he looked, and made the nations tremble.
The ancient mountains crumbled(A)
    and the age-old hills(B) collapsed(C)
    but he marches on forever.(D)

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