(A)I clothe the heavens with blackness,
(B)And I make sackcloth their covering.”

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I clothe the heavens with darkness(A)
    and make sackcloth(B) its covering.”

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Sixth Seal: Cosmic Disturbances

12 I looked when He opened the sixth seal, (A)and [a]behold, there was a great earthquake; and (B)the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the [b]moon became like blood.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 6:12 NU, M omit behold
  2. Revelation 6:12 NU, M whole moon

12 I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake.(A) The sun turned black(B) like sackcloth(C) made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,

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11 He made darkness His secret place;
(A)His canopy around Him was dark waters
And thick clouds of the skies.
12 (B)From the brightness before Him,
His thick clouds passed with hailstones and coals of fire.

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11 He made darkness his covering,(A) his canopy(B) around him—
    the dark rain clouds of the sky.
12 Out of the brightness of his presence(C) clouds advanced,
    with hailstones(D) and bolts of lightning.(E)

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Jesus Dies on the Cross(A)

45 (B)Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land.

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The Death of Jesus(A)

45 From noon until three in the afternoon darkness(B) came over all the land.

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The Ninth Plague: Darkness

21 Then the Lord said to Moses, (A)“Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, [a]darkness which may even be felt.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 10:21 Lit. that one may feel the darkness

The Plague of Darkness

21 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness(A) spreads over Egypt—darkness that can be felt.”

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