and YHWH said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.
YHWH is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. YHWH has ʜɪꜱ way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of ʜɪꜱ feet.