Verse List for EXO 20:21

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B I ◄ ← Exo 20:21 ↓ → ► ═ ©

Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=important Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) So the people stood at a good distance while Mosheh approached toward the thick darkness where God was.

OET-LV And_it _stood the_people from_a _distance and_Mosheh he _drew _near to the _thick_darkness where was_there the_ʼElohīm.

ULT So the people stood far off, and Moses approached toward the thick darkness where God was.

UST Then, as the people watched from a distance, Moses went close to the black cloud where God was.

BSB & MSB And the people stood at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.

OEB No OEB EXO book available

WEBBE & WMBB The people stayed at a distance, and Moses came near to the thick darkness where God was.

NET The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

LSV And the people stand far off, and Moses has drawn near to the thick darkness where God [is].

FBV The people stood a long way off as Moses went over to the thick, dark cloud where God was.

T4T Then, as the people watched from a distance, Moses/I went close to the black cloud where God was.

LEB And the people stood at a distance, and Moses approached the very thick cloud where God was.

BBE And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud where God was.

Moff No Moff EXO book available

JPS (20-18) And the people stood afar off; but Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

ASV And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

DRA And the people stood afar off. But Moses went to the dark cloud wherein God was.

YLT And the people stand afar off, and Moses hath drawn nigh unto the thick darkness where God [is].

Drby And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the obscurity where [fn]God was.

RV And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

SLT And the people will stand from far off, and Moses will draw near to the darkness where God is there.

Wbstr And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

KJB-1769 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

KJB-1611 And the people stood afarre off, and Moses drew neere vnto the thicke darkenes, where God was.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps And the people stoode a farre of: and Moyses went into the thicke cloude where God was.
(And the people stood afar off: and Moses went into the thick cloud where God was.)

Gnva So the people stoode afarre off, but Moses drew neere vnto the darkenes where God was.
(So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near unto the darkness where God was.)

Cvdl And the people stode afarre of. But Moses gat him in to the darcke cloude, where in God was.
(And the people stood afar off. But Moses gat him in to the dark cloud, where in God was.)

Wycl And the puple stood afer; forsothe Moises neiyede to the derknesse, wherynne God was.
(And the people stood afar; for_certain/truly Moses came_near to the darkness, wherein God was.)

Luth Also trat das Volk von ferne; aber Mose machte sich hinzu ins Dunkel, da GOtt innen war.
(So stepped the people from distant; but Moses made/did itself/yourself/themselves in into_the darkness, there God inside was.)

ClVg Stetitque populus de longe. Moyses autem accessit ad caliginem in qua erat Deus.[fn]
(And_he_stood the_people from/about far_away. Moses however came to the_darknessm in/into/on which was God.)

UHB וַ⁠יַּעֲמֹ֥ד הָ⁠עָ֖ם מֵ⁠רָחֹ֑ק וּ⁠מֹשֶׁה֙ נִגַּ֣שׁ אֶל־הָֽ⁠עֲרָפֶ֔ל אֲשֶׁר־שָׁ֖ם הָ⁠אֱלֹהִֽים׃פ ‡

BrLXX Εἱστήκει δὲ ὁ λαὸς μακρόθεν, Μωυσῆς δὲ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸν γνόφον, οὗ ἦν ὁ Θεός.

BrTr And the people stood afar off, and Moses went into the darkness where God was.