Exodus 20:21

So the people stoode afarre off, but Moses drew neere vnto the darkenes where God was.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

20Then Moses sayde vnto the people, Feare not: for God is come to proue you, and that his feare may be before you, that ye sinne not.

22And the Lord sayde vnto Moses, Thus thou shalt say vnto the children of Israel, Ye haue seene that I haue talked with you from heauen.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:16And the thirde day, when it was morning, there was thunders and lightnings, and a thicke cloude vpon the mount, and the sounde of the trumpet exceeding loude, so that all the people, that was in the campe, was afrayde.

Deuteronomy 5:22These wordes the Lord spake vnto all your multitude in the mount out of the mids of the fire, the cloude and the darkenes, with a great voyce, and added no more thereto: and wrote them vpon two tables of stone, and deliuered them vnto me.

2 Chronicles 6:1Then Salomon sayd, The Lord hath sayde that he would dwell in the darke cloude:

Psalms 18:12At the brightnes of his presence his clouds passed, haylestones and coles of fire.

Psalms 104:2Which couereth himselfe with light as with a garment, and spreadeth the heauens like a curtaine.

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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