Exodus 20:21
Then, as the people watched from a distance, Moses/I went close to the black cloud where God was.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 19:16Two days later, during the morning, there was thunder and lightning, and a very dark cloud on the mountain. A trumpet sounded very loudly, with the result that the people in the camp shook/trembled because they were very afraid.
Deuteronomy 5:22Those are the commandments that Yahweh spoke to your ancestors. When they were gathered there at the bottom of the mountain, he spoke with a very loud voice from the middle of the fire, and there were dark clouds surrounding the mountain. He spoke only those ten commandments, no more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.
2 Chronicles 6:1Then Solomon said, “Yahweh, you said that you would live in a dark cloud.
Psalms 18:12Hailstones and flashes of lightning were around him; hail and burning coals fell from the sky.
Psalms 104:2You created/caused light to be like your robe [MET]. You spread out the sky like a man sets up a tent.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 20:19-22
Terror with Which the Law Was Given. ( b. c. 1491.) 18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. 19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die. 20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. 21 And the people stood afar off, and… Read the whole commentary →