Exodus 19:16
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The Great Theophany. 16 (A)On the morning of the third day there were peals of thunder and lightning, and a heavy cloud over the mountain, and a very loud blast of the shofar,[a] so that all the people in the camp trembled.
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- 19:16 Shofar: a ram’s horn used like a trumpet for signaling both for liturgical and military purposes.
Exodus 19:19
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19 The blast of the shofar grew louder and louder, while Moses was speaking and God was answering him with thunder.
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Exodus 20:18-19
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Moses Accepted as Mediator. 18 Now as all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the blast of the shofar and the mountain smoking, they became afraid and trembled.(A) So they took up a position farther away 19 and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, or we shall die.”
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