⁹ The Lord said to Moses, “I am going to come to you in a dense cloud,^(A) so that the people will hear me speaking^(B) with you and will always put their trust^(C) in you.” Then Moses told the Lord what the people had said.

¹⁸ When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet^(A) and saw the mountain in smoke,^(B) they trembled with fear.^(C) They stayed at a distance

¹⁵ When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud^(A) covered it,

¹⁶ and the glory^(A) of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai.^(B) For six days the cloud covered the mountain, and on the seventh day the Lord called to Moses from within the cloud.^(C)

¹⁷ To the Israelites the glory of the Lord looked like a consuming fire^(A) on top of the mountain.

¹⁸ Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty^(A) days and forty nights.^(B)

⁵ Then the Lord came down in the cloud^(A) and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord.^(B)