(A)I clothe the heavens with blackness
    and make sackcloth their covering.”

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12 When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, (A)there was a great earthquake, and (B)the sun became black as (C)sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,

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11 He made darkness his covering, his (A)canopy around him,
    thick clouds (B)dark with water.
12 Out of the brightness before him
    (C)hailstones and coals of fire broke through his clouds.

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The Death of Jesus

45 Now from the sixth hour[a] there was darkness over all the land[b] until the ninth hour.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:45 That is, noon
  2. Matthew 27:45 Or earth
  3. Matthew 27:45 That is, 3 p.m.

The Ninth Plague: Darkness

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

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