Exodus 19:11
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and be prepared by the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
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On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
And the LORD descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the LORD.
He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.
No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.
The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the summit. So Moses went up,
He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.
Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.
And I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put that Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.
I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.