Exodus 20:18

New English Translation

All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking – and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.

Cross References

Genesis 15:17

When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch passed between the animal parts.

Genesis 3:10

The man replied, “I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”

Psalm 81:7

In your distress you called out and I rescued you. I answered you from a dark thundercloud. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. (Selah)

Jeremiah 23:23

Do you people think that I am some local deity and not the transcendent God?” the Lord asks.

Deuteronomy 18:16

This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the Lord your God: “Please do not make us hear the voice of the Lord our God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die.”

Deuteronomy 4:36

From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words.

Deuteronomy 5:23

Then, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness while the mountain was ablaze, all your tribal leaders and elders approached me.

Deuteronomy 5:25

But now, why should we die, because this intense fire will consume us! If we keep hearing the voice of the Lord our God we will die!

Deuteronomy 5:27

You go near so that you can hear everything the Lord our God is saying and then you can tell us whatever he says to you; then we will pay attention and do it.”

Deuteronomy 5:5

(I was standing between the Lord and you at that time to reveal to you the message of the Lord, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.) He said: