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Exodus 19:19

And it happened, as the blast of the ram's horn grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him with [a voice of] thunder.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   Law;   Miracles;   Prophets;   Reverence;   Sinai;   Trumpet;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Thompson Chain Reference - God's;   Silence-Speech;   Voice;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Law of Moses, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Exodus;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Building;   Feasts and Festivals of Israel;   Holy, Holiness;   Prophet, Prophetess, Prophecy;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Commandments, the Ten;   Festivals, Religious;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Mediator;   Sabbath;   Trumpets, Feast of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Mount Sinai;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Exodus;   Mediator, Mediation;   Moses;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sina, Sinai ;   Trumpets;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Fire;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Sinai;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mo'ses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Encampment at Sinai;   Events of the Encampment;   Proclamation of the Law;   Tabernacle, the;   Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   Law of Moses, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Blackness;   Moses;   Writing;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Holiness;   Theophany;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
When the sound of the shofar grew louder and louder, Moshe spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
King James Version
And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
Lexham English Bible
And the sound of the ram's horn became louder and louder, and Moses would speak, and God would answer him with a voice.
New Century Version
The sound from the trumpet became louder. Then Moses spoke, and the voice of God answered him.
New English Translation
When the sound of the horn grew louder and louder, Moses was speaking and God was answering him with a voice.
New American Standard Bible
When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him with thunder.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And when the sound of the trumpet blew long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by voyce.
Legacy Standard Bible
And the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder; then Moses spoke and God answered him with thunder.
Contemporary English Version
The trumpet blew louder and louder. Moses spoke, and God answered him with thunder.
Complete Jewish Bible
As the sound of the shofar grew louder and louder, Moshe spoke; and God answered him with a voice.
Darby Translation
And the sound of the trumpet increased and became exceeding loud; Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
Easy-to-Read Version
The noise from the trumpet became louder and louder. Every time Moses spoke to God, God answered him with a voice like thunder.
English Standard Version
And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in thunder.
George Lamsa Translation
And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
Good News Translation
The sound of the trumpet became louder and louder. Moses spoke, and God answered him with thunder.
Christian Standard Bible®
As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him in the thunder.
Literal Translation
And it happened while the sound of the ram's horn was sounding, and becoming very strong, Moses spoke. And God answered him by a voice.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the noyse of the trompet wete out, and was mightie. Moses spake, & God answered him loude.
American Standard Version
And when the voice of the trumpet waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
Bible in Basic English
And when the sound of the horn became louder and louder, Moses' words were answered by the voice of God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when the voyce of the trumpet blewe long, and waxed louder and louder, Moyses spake, and God aunswered hym by a voyce.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when the voice of the horn waxed louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
King James Version (1611)
And when the voyce of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed lowder and lowder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voyce.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the sounds of the trumpet were waxing very much louder. Moses spoke, and God answered him with a voice.
English Revised Version
And when the voice of the trumpet waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
Berean Standard Bible
And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in the thunder.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and the `sown of a clarioun encreesside litil and litil, and was holdun forth lengere. Moises spak, and the Lord answeride to hym,
Young's Literal Translation
and the sound of the trumpet is going on, and very strong; Moses speaketh, and God doth answer him with a voice.
Update Bible Version
And when the voice of the trumpet waxed louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
Webster's Bible Translation
And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
World English Bible
When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
New King James Version
And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice.
New Living Translation
As the blast of the ram's horn grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God thundered his reply.
New Life Bible
The sound of the horn became louder and louder. Moses spoke, and God answered him with thunder.
New Revised Standard
As the blast of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses would speak and God would answer him in thunder.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And as oft as the sound of the horn went on and became exceeding loud, Moses, spake and, God, responded to him with a voice.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the sound of the trumpet grew by degrees louder and louder, and was drawn out to a greater length: Moses spoke, and God answered him.
Revised Standard Version
And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in thunder.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him with thunder.

Contextual Overview

16So it happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunder and flashes of lightning, and a thick cloud was on the mountain, and a very loud blast was sounded on a ram's horn, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. 17Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood and presented themselves at the foot of the mountain. 18Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the LORD descended upon it in fire; its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently. 19And it happened, as the blast of the ram's horn grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him with [a voice of] thunder. 20The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain; and the LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and he went up. 21Then the LORD spoke to Moses, "Go down, warn the people, so that they do not break through [the barriers around the mountain] to the LORD to see [Me], and many of them perish [as a result]. 22"Also have the priests who approach the LORD consecrate (sanctify, set apart) themselves [for My sacred purpose], or else the LORD will break forth [in judgment] against them [and destroy them]." 23Moses said to the LORD, "The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, because You warned us, saying, 'Set barriers around the mountain and consecrate it.'" 24Then the LORD said to him, "Go down and come up again, you and Aaron with you; but do not let the priests and the people break through [the barriers] to come up to the LORD, or He will break forth [in judgment] against them [and destroy them]." 25So Moses went down to the people and told them [again about God's warning].

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And when: Exodus 19:13, Exodus 19:16

Moses: Hebrews 12:21

God: Psalms 81:7

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 4:33 - General Deuteronomy 4:36 - General Deuteronomy 5:4 - General Deuteronomy 5:22 - These words Deuteronomy 5:24 - we have heard Joshua 6:5 - make a long Isaiah 64:1 - that thou wouldest come Ezekiel 10:5 - the voice Matthew 17:5 - a voice

Cross-References

Genesis 12:13
"Please tell them that you are my sister so that things will go well for me for your sake, and my life will be spared because of you."
Genesis 19:1
It was evening when the two angels came to Sodom. Lot was sitting at Sodom's [city] gate. Seeing them, Lot got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
Genesis 19:7
and said, "Please, my brothers, do not do something so wicked.
Genesis 19:11
They struck (punished) the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, from the young men to the old men, so that they exhausted themselves trying to find the doorway.
Genesis 19:14
So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were [betrothed, and legally promised] to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up, get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy this city!" But to his sons-in-law he appeared to be joking.
Genesis 19:16
But Lot hesitated and lingered. The men took hold of his hand and the hand of his wife and the hands of his two daughters, because the LORD was merciful to him [for Abraham's sake]; and they brought him out, and left him outside the city [with his family].
Genesis 19:17
When they had brought them outside, one [of the angels] said, "Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, or stop anywhere in the entire valley; escape to the mountains [of Moab], or you will be consumed and swept away."
Genesis 19:19
"Please listen, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your lovingkindness (mercy) to me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, because the disaster will overtake me and I will be killed.
Genesis 19:22
"Hurry and take refuge there, for I cannot do anything [to punish Sodom] until you arrive there." For this reason the town was named Zoar (few, small).
Genesis 19:25
and He overthrew (demolished, ended) those cities, and the entire valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and whatever grew on the ground.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long,.... Not in one continued tone, as before, Exodus 19:13, where a different word is used, and when it decreased, and was about to cease, which was to summon the people to attend; but now they were come to the foot of the mount, and this sounding was a preparation to the giving of the law unto them, and was not one continued even tone: but waxed louder and louder; or, "going, and exceeding strong"; or, "strengthening itself exceedingly" x; it went on to an high pitch, until it was exceeding vehement and strong, and so sonorous as scarce to be bore:

Moses spake; what he said is not here recorded; it is highly probable, as has been observed by some, that he uttered those words related of him in Hebrews 12:21 "I exceedingly fear and quake": such an impression did this loud and strong voice of the trumpet make upon him:

and God answered him by a voice; a still and gentle one, in order to encourage and comfort him; and so the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it,

"with a pleasant and audible voice, and with delightful words.''

x הולך וחזק מאד προβαινουσαι ισχυροτεραι σφοδρα, Sept. "iens et fortificans se valde", Montanus; "roborans se", Vatablus; "quum pergeret et invalesceret valde", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.


 
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