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Literal Standard Version

Exodus 19:19

and the sound of the horn is going on, and [is] very strong; Moses speaks, and God answers him with 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.
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

16And it comes to pass, on the third day, while it is morning, that there are voices, and lightnings, and a heavy cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very strong horn; and all the people who [are] in the camp tremble. 17And Moses brings out the people from the camp to meet God, and they station themselves at the lower part of the mountain, 18and Mount Sinai [is] wholly [in] smoke from the presence of YHWH, who has come down on it in fire, and its smoke goes up as smoke of the furnace, and the whole mountain trembles exceedingly; 19and the sound of the horn is going on, and [is] very strong; Moses speaks, and God answers him with a voice.20And YHWH comes down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, and YHWH calls for Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses goes up. 21And YHWH says to Moses, "Go down, protest to the people, lest they break through to YHWH to see, and many of them have fallen; 22and also the priests who are coming near to YHWH sanctify themselves, lest YHWH break forth on them." 23And Moses says to YHWH, "The people [are] unable to come up to Mount Sinai, for You have protested to us, saying, Make a border [for] the mountain, then you have sanctified it." 24And YHWH says to him, "Go, descend, then you have come up, you and Aaron with you; and the priests and the people do not break through to come up to YHWH, lest He break forth on them." 25And Moses goes down to the people and speaks to 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
please say you [are] my sister, so that it is well with me because of you, and my soul has lived for your sake."
Genesis 19:1
And two of the messengers come toward Sodom at evening, and Lot is sitting at the gate of Sodom, and Lot sees, and rises to meet them, and bows himself—face to the earth,
Genesis 19:7
and says, "Please, my brothers, do not do evil;
Genesis 19:11
and the men who [are] at the opening of the house they have struck with blindness, from small even to great, and they weary themselves to find the opening.
Genesis 19:14
And Lot goes out and speaks to his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters, and says, "Rise, go out from this place, for YHWH is destroying the city"; and he is as [one] mocking in the eyes of his sons-in-law.
Genesis 19:16
And he lingers, and the men lay hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, through the mercy of YHWH to him, and they bring him out, and cause him to rest outside the city.
Genesis 19:17
And it comes to pass, when he has brought them outside, that he says, "Escape for your life; do not look behind you, nor stand in all the circuit; escape to the mountain, lest you are consumed."
Genesis 19:19
now behold, your servant has found grace in your eyes, and you make great your kindness which you have done with me by saving my life, and I am unable to escape to the mountain, lest the evil cleave [to] me and I have died;
Genesis 19:22
hurry, escape there, for I am not able to do anything until your entering there"; therefore he calls the name of the city Zoar.
Genesis 19:25
and He overthrows these cities, and all the circuit, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which is shooting up from 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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