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New Life Version

Exodus 19:19

The sound of the horn became louder and louder. Moses spoke, and God answered him with 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.
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 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 On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning. A cloud covered the mountain, and a very loud horn sounded. All the people among the tents shook with fear. 17 Then Moses brought the people from among the tents to meet God. They stood at the base of the mountain. 18 Mount Sinai was all in smoke because the Lord came down upon it in fire. Its smoke went up like the smoke of a stove. And the whole mountain shook. 19 The sound of the horn became louder and louder. Moses spoke, and God answered him with thunder. 20 Then the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. The Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and he went up. 21 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go down and tell the people not to break through to look at the Lord. For then many of them would be destroyed. 22 Have the religious leaders who come near to the Lord set themselves apart to be holy. Or the Lord will go against them." 23 Moses said to the Lord, "The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai. For You told us, ‘Set places around the mountain that must not be passed, and set it apart as holy.'" 24 Then the Lord said to him, "Go down, and then come up with Aaron. But do not let the religious leaders and the people break through to come up to the Lord, or He will go against 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 that you are my sister. Then it may go well with me because of you. And because of you they will not kill me."
Genesis 19:1
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening. Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them. He put his face to the ground
Genesis 19:7
He said, "My brothers, please do not be so sinful.
Genesis 19:11
Then they blinded the men who were at the door of the house, both small and big. So the men became tired trying to find the door.
Genesis 19:14
So Lot went out to speak to his sons-in-law who were to marry his daughters. He said, "Get up! Get out of this place! For the Lord will destroy the city!" But his sons-in-law thought he was only joking.
Genesis 19:16
But Lot was slow to move. So the men took him, his wife and two daughters by the hand and brought them out of the city. For the Lord had loving-pity for him.
Genesis 19:17
When they had brought them out of the city, one of them said, "Run for your life! Do not look behind you. Do not stop until you are out of the valley. Run to the mountains or else you will be destroyed."
Genesis 19:19
See, your servant has found favor in your eyes. You have shown me great kindness in what you have done for me by saving my life. But I cannot run to the mountains. For I will run into danger and die.
Genesis 19:22
Hurry and run there. For I cannot do anything until you get there." So the name given to the town was Zoar.
Genesis 19:25
He destroyed those cities, and all the valley, and all the people of the cities, and what 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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