Exodus 19:20

Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, and he summoned Moses to the top. So Moses went up.

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And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

In Context

19When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in a voice.

21Yahweh said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people not to break through to me to look, or many of them will perish.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:11Be ready for the third day, for on the third day Yahweh will come down to Mount Sinai.

Exodus 24:15So Moses went up the mountain, and the cloud covered it.

Exodus 34:2Be ready by morning and come up Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the mountain top.

Deuteronomy 9:9When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that Yahweh made with you, I stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.

Psalms 81:7In your distress you called out, and I helped you; 1 I answered you from a dark thundercloud. 1 I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah 1

Matthew Henry on Exodus 19:17-25

The Divine Presence on Mount Sinai. ( b. c. 1491.) 16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. 17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. 18 And Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof… Read the whole commentary →

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