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Exodus 24:16-18
New Catholic Bible
Exodus 24:16-18
New Catholic Bible
16 The glory of the Lord[a] settled upon Mount Sinai, and clouds covered it for seven days. On the seventh day he called to Moses from out of the cloud.
17 The glory of the Lord appeared to the children of Israel to be a consuming fire on the mountaintop. 18 Moses entered into the midst of the cloud and climbed up the mountain. He remained on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.
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- Exodus 24:16 In the Priestly tradition the glory of the Lord (see Ex 16:10) is the manifestation of the divine presence. See 33:18, where a great theophany is described.
