Deuteronomy 9:15

Modern

So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.

Traditional

So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

Literal

And I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with the fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

Latin

Cumque de monte ardente descenderem, et duas tabulas fœderis utraque tenerem manu,

Hebrew

English

So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.

Theme notes and profiles

Exodus 19:18
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.
Deuteronomy 5:23
And when you heard the voice out of the darkness while the mountain was blazing with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me,
Deuteronomy 4:11
You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.
Hebrews 12:18
For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;
Exodus 9:23
So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt.
Exodus 32:14–35
So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.