Exodus 20:21
So then the people stood afar off, and, Moses, approached unto the thick gloom, where God was.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 19:16And it came to pass on the third day, when the morning had come, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a heavy cloud upon the mount, and the sound of a horn, loud exceedingly,—and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
Deuteronomy 5:22These words, spake Yahweh unto all the convocation of you in the mount out of the midst of the fire the cloud and the thick gloom, a loud voice, and added not,—and he wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them unto me.
2 Chronicles 6:1Then, said Solomon,—Yahweh, said, that he would make his habitation in thick gloom;
Psalms 18:12Out of the brightness before him, his clouds rolled along, hail, and live coals of fire.
Psalms 104:2Putting on light, as a robe, Stretching out the heavens, as a curtain;
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 →