◄ Deuteronomy 4:11 ►
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Good News Translation
"Tell your children how you went and stood at the foot of the mountain which was covered with thick clouds of dark smoke and fire blazing up to the sky.

New Revised Standard Version
you approached and stood at the foot of the mountain while the mountain was blazing up to the very heavens, shrouded in dark clouds.

Contemporary English Version
Mount Sinai was surrounded by deep dark clouds, and fire went up to the sky. You came to the foot of the mountain,

New American Bible
You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain blazed to the heart of the heavens with fire and was enveloped in a dense black cloud.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you came to the foot of the mount, which burned even unto heaven: and there was darkness, and a cloud and obscurity in it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And you came to the foot of the mount, which burned even unto heaven: and there was darkness, and a cloud and obscurity in it.

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Deuteronomy 5:23 But you, after you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, and saw the mountain burn, came to me, all the princes of the tribes and the elders, and you said:

Exodus 19:16-18 And now the third day was come, and the morning appeared: and behold thunders began to be heard, and lightning to flash, and a very thick cloud to cover the mount, and the noise of the trumpet sounded exceeding loud; and the people that was in the camp, feared. . . .

Exodus 20:18,19 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, . . .

midst [heb] heart

Context
An Exhortation to Obedience
…10From the day in which thou didst stand before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord spoke to me, saying: Call together the people unto me, that they may hear my words, and may learn to fear me all the time that they live on the earth, and may teach their children. 11And you came to the foot of the mount, which burned even unto heaven: and there was darkness, and a cloud and obscurity in it.12And the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire. You heard the voice of his words, but you saw not any form at all.…
Cross References
Hebrews 12:18
For you are not come to a mountain that might be touched and a burning fire and a whirlwind and darkness and storm,

Hebrews 12:19
And the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which they that had excused themselves, that the word might not be spoken to them.

Exodus 19:9
The Lord said to him: Lo, now will I come to thee in the darkness of a cloud, that the people may hear me speaking to thee, and may believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people to the Lord.

Exodus 19:18
And all Mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: and all the mount was terrible.

Deuteronomy 4:12
And the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire. You heard the voice of his words, but you saw not any form at all.

Psalm 18:11
And he made darkness his cover, his pavilion round about him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.

Psalm 97:2
Clouds and darkness are round about him: justice and judgment are the establishment of his throne.

Deuteronomy 4:10
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