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Exodus 19:18

And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

KJV

Totus autem mons Sinai fumabat, eo quod descendisset Dominus super eum in igne : et ascenderet fumus ex eo quasi de fornace, eratque omnis mons terribilis.

Vulgate

τὸ δὲ ὄρος τὸ Σινὰ ἐκαπνίζετο ὅλον διὰ τὸ καταβεβηκέναι ἐπ’ αὐτὸ τὸν θεὸν ἐν πυρί, καὶ ἀνέβαινεν ὁ καπνὸς ὡς καπνὸς καμίνου· καὶ ἐξέστη πᾶς ὁ λαὸς σφόδρα.

LXX

And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

ASV

וְ/הַ֤ר סִינַי֙ עָשַׁ֣ן כֻּלּ֔/וֹ מִ֠/פְּנֵי אֲשֶׁ֨ר יָרַ֥ד עָלָ֛י/ו יְהוָ֖ה בָּ/אֵ֑שׁ וַ/יַּ֤עַל עֲשָׁנ/וֹ֙ כְּ/עֶ֣שֶׁן הַ/כִּבְשָׁ֔ן וַ/יֶּחֱרַ֥ד כָּל הָ/הָ֖ר מְאֹֽד

Hebrew

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15 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲשֶׁר
'shr
particle · 5461×
אֵ֖שׁ
'sh
noun · 376×
הַ֣ר
hr
noun · 544×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יֶעֱשָֽׁנוּ
y'shnv
verb · 6×
יָרְד֥וּ
yrdv
verb · 377×
יַּ֥עַל
y'l
verb · 885×
כִּבְשָׁ֑ן
kbshn
noun · 4×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
מְאֹֽד
m'd
noun · 297×
מַחֲרִֽיד
mchryd
verb · 39×
סִינָֽי
syny
proper_noun · 35×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
עָשָׁ֣ן
'shn
noun · 24×
פְנֵ֣י
pny
noun · 2111×

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Typology

Theophany

Miracle

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§2085The one and true God first reveals his glory to Israel.6 The revelation of the vocation and truth of man is linked to the revelation of God. Man's vocation is to make God manifest by acting in conformity with his creation "in the image and likeness of God": There will never be another God, Trypho, and there has been no other since the world began . . . than he who made and orde…
1. Wonderful indeed were the things in the Temple, the Holy of Holies; and again awful were those things also that were done at Mount Sina, the fire, the darkness, the blackness, the tempest. cf. Deuteronomy 33:2 For, it says, God appeared in Sina, and long ago were these things celebrated. The New Covenant, however, was not given with any of these things, but has been given in…

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 14:15 — And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.
  • Deut 5:4 — The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
  • Deut 5:22 — These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two
  • Deut 9:15 — So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
  • Deut 33:2 — And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
  • Deut 33:2 — And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
  • Exod 3:2 — And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
  • Exod 24:17 — And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
  • Exod 24:17 — And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
  • Exod 34:5 — And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
  • Gen 19:28 — And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
  • Heb 12:26 — Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
  • Isa 64:1 — Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
  • Jer 4:24 — I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
  • Judg 5:5 — The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
  • Judg 5:5 — The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
  • Nah 1:5 — The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
  • Ps 68:7 — O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
  • Ps 68:8 — The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
  • Ps 104:32 — He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
  • Ps 104:32 — He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
  • Ps 114:4 — The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
  • Ps 144:5 — Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
  • Ps 144:5 — Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
  • Rev 9:2 — And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
  • Rev 15:8 — And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.