⁵ But the Lord came down to look at the city and the tower the people were building.

²¹ I am going down to see if their actions are as wicked as I have heard. If not, I want to know.”

¹¹ Be sure they are ready on the third day, for on that day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai as all the people watch.

¹³ No one has ever gone to heaven and returned. But the Son of Man^[a] has come down from heaven.

²⁰ The Lord came down on the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. So Moses climbed the mountain.

¹³ Nothing in all creation is hidden from God. Everything is naked and exposed before his eyes, and he is the one to whom we are accountable.

¹⁸ All of Mount Sinai was covered with smoke because the Lord had descended on it in the form of fire. The smoke billowed into the sky like smoke from a brick kiln, and the whole mountain shook violently.

⁸ So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey—the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.