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I dress the skies in darkness,
    covering them with clothes of mourning.”

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

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12 I watched as the Lamb broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became as dark as black cloth, and the moon became as red as blood.

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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 shrouded himself in darkness,
    veiling his approach with dark rain clouds.
12 Thick clouds shielded the brightness around him
    and rained down hail and burning coals.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 18:12 Or and lightning bolts; also in 18:13.

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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The Death of Jesus

45 At noon, darkness fell across the whole land until three o’clock.

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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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A Plague of Darkness

21 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Lift your hand toward heaven, and the land of Egypt will be covered with a darkness so thick you can feel it.”

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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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