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Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the people: Exodus 19:16, Exodus 19:17, Deuteronomy 5:5

thick: 1 Kings 8:12, 2 Chronicles 6:1, Psalms 18:9, Psalms 18:12, Psalms 97:2, Psalms 104:2, 1 Timothy 6:16

Reciprocal: Exodus 10:22 - thick darkness Exodus 19:3 - went up Exodus 19:9 - Lo Exodus 24:1 - Come up Exodus 24:2 - General 2 Samuel 22:10 - darkness Job 26:9 - General Psalms 103:7 - He made Psalms 139:12 - the darkness Joel 2:2 - A day of darkness

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the people stood afar off,.... Still kept their distance in their camp and tents; or the heads and elders of the people having had this conversation with Moses, returned to their tents as they were bid, Deuteronomy 5:30 and to the people in the camp, and there they continued while Moses went up to God with their request:

and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was; the thick cloud, Exodus 19:9 as Jarchi interprets it, and who observes from their doctors that there were three enclosures about the divine Majesty, darkness, a cloud, and thick darkness; and so Moses passed through the darkness, and the cloud, to the thick darkness where Jehovah was, and where he is said to dwell when the temple was built, 1 Kings 8:8 and they have an observation that the word rendered "drew near" is transitive, and should be translated, "he was brought near" or, "made to draw nigh"; Michael and Gabriel being sent to him, took hold of his hands and brought him against his will unto the thick darkness r; but if the word will admit of such a version, the sense is either that he was caused to draw near through the importunity of the people; or rather through the call of God to him, or an impulse of his upon his mind, which obliged him to it.

r Pirke Eliezer, c. 41.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Deuteronomy 5:22-31. Aaron Exodus 19:24 on this occasion accompanied Moses in drawing near to the thick darkness.

Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33 is a series of laws which we may identify with what was written by Moses in the book called the book of the covenant, and read by him in the audience of the people Exodus 24:7.

The document cannot be regarded as a strictly systematic whole. Portions of it were probably traditional rules handed down from the patriarchs, and retained by the Israelites in Egypt.