Exodus 24:17
What does Exodus 24:17 mean?
A plain-English look at Exodus 24:17 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And the glory of the Lord was like a flame on the top of the mountain before the eyes of the children of Israel.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And the appearance of the honour of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> as a consuming fire on the top of the mount, before the eyes of the sons of Israel;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And the sight of the glory of the Lord, was like a burning fire upon the top of the mount, in the eyes of the children of Israel.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain, before the eyes of the children of Israel.
Context
v.16And the glory of Jehovah abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
v.17This passage
v.18And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 19:18
And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
- Nahum 1:6
Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.
- Hebrews 12:18
For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
- Habakkuk 3:4
Andhisbrightness was as the light; He had rayscoming forthfrom his hand; And there was the hiding of his power.
- Exodus 3:2
And the angel of Jehovah appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
- Deuteronomy 4:36
Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he made thee to see his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
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