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Good News Translation

Exodus 19:19

The sound of the trumpet 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.
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

16 On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, a thick cloud appeared on the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast was heard. All the people in the camp trembled with fear. 17 Moses led them out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. 18 All of Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the Lord had come down on it in fire. The smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and all the people trembled violently. 19 The sound of the trumpet became louder and louder. Moses spoke, and God answered him with thunder. 20 The Lord came down on the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. Moses went up 21 and the Lord said to him, "Go down and warn the people not to cross the boundary to come and look at me; if they do, many of them will die. 22 Even the priests who come near me must purify themselves, or I will punish them." 23 Moses said to the Lord , "The people cannot come up, because you commanded us to consider the mountain sacred and to mark a boundary around it." 24 The Lord replied, "Go down and bring Aaron back with you. But the priests and the people must not cross the boundary to come up to me, or I will punish them." 25 Moses then went down to the people and told them what the Lord had said.

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
Tell them that you are my sister; then because of you they will let me live and treat me well."
Genesis 19:1
When the two angels came to Sodom that evening, Lot was sitting at the city gate. As soon as he saw them, he got up and went to meet them. He bowed down before them
Genesis 19:7
He said to them, "Friends, I beg you, don't do such a wicked thing!
Genesis 19:11
Then they struck all the men outside with blindness, so that they couldn't find the door.
Genesis 19:14
Then Lot went to the men that his daughters were going to marry, and said, "Hurry up and get out of here; the Lord is going to destroy this place." But they thought he was joking.
Genesis 19:16
Lot hesitated. The Lord , however, had pity on him; so the men took him, his wife, and his two daughters by the hand and led them out of the city.
Genesis 19:17
Then one of the angels said, "Run for your lives! Don't look back and don't stop in the valley. Run to the hills, so that you won't be killed."
Genesis 19:19
You have done me a great favor and saved my life. But the hills are too far away; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die before I get there.
Genesis 19:22
Hurry! Run! I can't do anything until you get there." Because Lot called it small, the town was named Zoar.
Genesis 19:25
and destroyed them and the whole valley, along with all the people there and everything that grew on the land.

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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