And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
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Gill's Exposition
Ye shall not make with me,.... This is a proposition of itself, as appears by the accent Athnach placed at the end of it, which divides it from the following, and therefore "gods of silver" belong to…
Compare Deu 5:22-31. Aaron Exo 19:24 on this occasion accompanied Moses in drawing near to the thick darkness. Exo 20:22 to Exo 23:33 is a series of laws which we may identify with what was written by…
I. The extraordinary terror with which the law was given. Never was any thing delivered with such awful pomp; every word was accented, and every sentence paused, with thunder and lightning, much…
Cambridge Bible
thick darkness -ǎrâphel, the word, mostly poetical (Psa 18:9; 1Ki 8:12), used in Deu 4:11; Deu 5:22 [Heb. 19].
With the preceding narrative, especially the parts that belong to E Exo 9:16-19; Exo…
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