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The Darby Translation

Exodus 19:19

And the sound of the trumpet increased and became exceeding loud; Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.

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.
Amplified Bible
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.
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.
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

16 And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings and a heavy cloud on the mountain, and the sound of the trumpet exceeding loud; and the whole people that was in the camp trembled. 17 And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the foot of the mountain. 18 And the whole of mount Sinai smoked, because Jehovah descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended as the smoke of a furnace; and the whole mountain shook greatly. 19 And the sound of the trumpet increased and became exceeding loud; Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice. 20 And Jehovah came down on mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain; and Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. 21 And Jehovah said to Moses, Go down, testify to the people that they break not through to Jehovah to gaze, and many of them perish. 22 And the priests also, who come near to Jehovah, shall hallow themselves, lest Jehovah break forth on them. 23 And Moses said to Jehovah, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai; for thou hast testified to us, saying, Set bounds about the mountain, and hallow it. 24 And Jehovah said to him, Go, descend, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee; but the priests and the people shall not break through to go up to Jehovah, lest he break forth on them. 25 So Moses went down to the people, and told them.

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
Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister, that it may be well with me on thy account, and my soul may live because of thee.
Genesis 19:1
And the two angels came to Sodom at even. And Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed down, the face toward the ground,
Genesis 19:7
and said, I pray you, my brethren, do not wickedly!
Genesis 19:11
And they smote the men that were at the entrance of the house with blindness, from the smallest to the greatest; and they wearied themselves to find the entrance.
Genesis 19:14
And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, Up, go out of this place, for Jehovah will destroy the city. But he was as if he jested, in the sight of his sons-in-law.
Genesis 19:16
And as he lingered, the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, Jehovah being merciful to him; and they led him out, and set him without the city.
Genesis 19:17
And it came to pass when they had brought them outside, that he said, Escape for thy life: look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain: escape to the mountain, lest thou perish.
Genesis 19:19
behold now, thy servant has found favour in thine eyes, and thou hast magnified thy goodness, which thou hast shewn to me in preserving my soul alive; but I cannot escape to the mountain, lest calamity lay hold on me, that I die.
Genesis 19:22
Haste, escape thither; for I cannot do anything until thou art come there. Therefore the name of the city is called Zoar.
Genesis 19:25
and overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew upon 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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