Exodus 20:21

So the people stood far off, and Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.

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And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

In Context

20Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid, for God has come to test you so that the honor of him may be in you, and so that you do not sin.”

22Yahweh said to Moses, “This is what you must tell the Israelites: 'You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:16On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunder and lightning bolts and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud trumpet. All the people in the camp trembled.

Deuteronomy 5:22These words Yahweh spoke in a loud voice to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness; he did not add any more words. He wrote them down on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

2 Chronicles 6:1Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would live in thick darkness,

Psalms 18:12Hailstones and coals of fire fell from the lightning before him. 1

Psalms 104:2You cover yourself with light as with a garment; 1 you spread out the heavens like a tent curtain. 1

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 →

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