When the sun set and it became dark, behold, there was a smoking oven and a fiery torch that passed between these pieces.
Exodus 20:18 - Tree of Life Version All the people witnessed the thundering and the lightning, and the sound of the shofar, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled and stood far off. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Now all the people perceived the thunderings and the lightnings and the noise of the trumpet and the smoking mountain, and as [they] looked they trembled with fear and fell back and stood afar off. American Standard Version (1901) And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off. Common English Bible When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the horn, and the mountain smoking, the people shook with fear and stood at a distance. Catholic Public Domain Version Then all the people considered the voices, and the lights, and the sound of the trumpet, and the smoking mountain. And being terrified and struck with fear, they stood at a distance, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And all the people saw the voices and the flames, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mount smoking: and being terrified and struck with fear, they stood afar off, |
When the sun set and it became dark, behold, there was a smoking oven and a fiery torch that passed between these pieces.
Then he said, “Your sound—I heard it in the garden and I was afraid. Because I am naked, I hid myself.”
“I relieved his shoulder of the burden, his hands were set free from the basket.
“Am I God only when near” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “and not God when far off?
This is just what you asked of Adonai your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly when saying, ‘I cannot continue to hear the voice of Adonai my God or see this great fire any more, or I will die.’
From the heavens He made you hear His voice to instruct you, and on earth He caused you to see His great fire—you heard His words from the midst of the fire.
For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
“Adonai heard the tone of your words when you spoke to me, and Adonai said to me, ‘I have heard the tone of the words that this people has spoken to you—they have done well in all they have spoken.
(I was standing between Adonai and you at that time, to tell you the word of Adonai, because you were afraid because of the fire and did not go up the mountain.) ‘He said: