| Exodus 20:21 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | So the people stood at a distance, while Moses approached the thick cloud where God was. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | The people kept their distance while Moses went closer to the dark cloud where God was.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was. |
| ASV: | And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was. |
| BBE: | And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud where God was. |
| DBY: | And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the obscurity where God was. |
| ERV: | And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was. |
| JPS: | And the people stood afar off; but Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was. |
| WBS: | And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was. |
| WEB: | The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was. |
| YLT: | And the people stand afar off, and Moses hath drawn nigh unto the thick darkness where God is. |
| Exodus 20:21 Cross References |
| XREF: | Exodus 19:16 So it came about on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunder and lightning flashes and a thick cloud upon the mountain and a very loud trumpet sound, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled.
Deuteronomy 5:22 "These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, of the cloud and of the thick gloom, with a great voice, and He added no more. He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| WES: | 20:21 While the people continued to stand afar off - Afraid of God's wrath, Moses drew near unto the thick darkness; he was made to draw near, so the word is: Moses of himself durst not have ventured into the thick darkness if God had not called him, and encouraged him, and, as some of the Rabbins suppose, sent an angel to take him by the hand, and lead him up. |
| MHC: | 20:18-21 This law, which is so extensive that we cannot measure it, so spiritual that we cannot evade it, and so reasonable that we cannot find fault with it, will be the rule of the future judgment of God, as it is for the present conduct of man. If tried by this rule, we shall find our lives have been passed in transgressions. And with this holy law and an awful judgment before us, who can despise the gospel of Christ? And the knowledge of the law shows our need of repentance. In every believer's heart sin is dethroned and crucified, the law of God is written, and the image of God renewed. The Holy Spirit enables him to hate sin and flee from it, to love and keep this law in sincerity and truth; nor will he cease to repent. |
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