Exodus 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.
KJV
Erat autem species gloriæ Domini quasi ignis ardens super verticem montis in conspectu filiorum Israël.
Vulgate
τὸ δὲ εἶδος τῆς δόξης Κυρίου ὡσεὶ πῦρ φλέγον ἐπὶ τῆς κορυφῆς τοῦ ὄρους ἐναντίον τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ.
LXX
And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
ASV
וּ/מַרְאֵה֙ כְּב֣וֹד יְהוָ֔ה כְּ/אֵ֥שׁ אֹכֶ֖לֶת בְּ/רֹ֣אשׁ הָ/הָ֑ר לְ/עֵינֵ֖י בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֵ֖שׁ
'sh
noun · 376×
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
הַ֣ר
hr
noun · 544×
וֹ
v
noun · 198×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל
yshr'l
proper_noun · 2486×
ךָ
k
noun · 894×
ם
m
verb · 811×
מַרְאֶ֖ה
mr'h
noun · 104×
רֹ֣אשׁ
r'sh
noun · 593×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 2 passages
§697Cloud and light. These two images occur together in the manifestations of the Holy Spirit. In the theophanies of the Old Testament, the cloud, now obscure, now luminous, reveals the living and saving God, while veiling the transcendence of his glory - with Moses on Mount Sinai,43 at the tent of meeting,44 and during the wandering in the desert,45 and with Solomon at the dedicat…
§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…
Cross-references
- 2Chr 7:2 — And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD’s house.
- Deut 4:13 — And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
- Deut 4:24 — For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
- Deut 4:24 — For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
- Deut 4:36 — Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
- 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 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.
- Exod 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.
- Exod 24:16 — And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
- Ezek 1:27 — And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were th
- Hab 3:4 — And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
- Heb 12:18 — For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
- Heb 12:18 — For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
- Heb 12:29 — For our God is a consuming fire.
- Heb 12:29 — For our God is a consuming fire.