Exodus 19:18-25

18 Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the LORD descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain[a] trembled violently.
19 As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and the voice of God answered him.[b]
20 The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. So Moses went up
21 and the LORD said to him, “Go down and warn the people so they do not force their way through to see the LORD and many of them perish.
22 Even the priests, who approach the LORD, must consecrate themselves, or the LORD will break out against them.”
23 Moses said to the LORD, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, because you yourself warned us, ‘Put limits around the mountain and set it apart as holy.’ ”
24 The LORD replied, “Go down and bring Aaron up with you. But the priests and the people must not force their way through to come up to the LORD, or he will break out against them.”
25 So Moses went down to the people and told them.

Cross References 16

  • 1. Exodus 20:18; Psalms 104:32; Isaiah 6:4; Revelation 15:8
  • 2. S Exodus 3:2; Exodus 24:17; Leviticus 9:24; Deuteronomy 4:11,24,33,36">Deuteronomy 4:11,24,33,36; Deuteronomy 4:11; Deuteronomy 5:4; Deuteronomy 9:3; 1 Kings 18:24,38; 1 Chronicles 21:26; 2 Chronicles 7:1; Psalms 18:8; Hebrews 12:18
  • 3. S Genesis 19:28; Revelation 9:2
  • 4. Judges 5:5; 2 Samuel 22:8; Psalms 18:7; Psalms 68:8; Isaiah 2:19; Isaiah 5:25; Isaiah 41:15; Isaiah 64:1; Jeremiah 4:24; Jeremiah 10:10; Micah 1:4; Nahum 1:5; Habakkuk 3:6,10; Haggai 2:6
  • 5. S ver 9; Deuteronomy 4:33; Nehemiah 9:13
  • 6. Psalms 81:7
  • 7. S ver 11
  • 8. Exodus 24:10-11; Exodus 3:5; Numbers 4:20; 1 Samuel 6:19
  • 9. S ver 13
  • 10. Leviticus 10:3
  • 11. 1 Samuel 16:5; 2 Chronicles 29:5; Joel 2:16
  • 12. ver 24; 2 Samuel 6:7
  • 13. ver 11
  • 14. ver 12
  • 15. Exodus 24:1,9
  • 16. ver 22

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Most Hebrew manuscripts; a few Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint "and all the people"
  • [b]. Or "and God answered him with thunder"
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