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The Lord said to Moses, “I am going to come[a] to you in a dense cloud,[b] so that the people may hear when I speak with you and so that they will always believe in you.”[c] And Moses told the words of the people to the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 19:9 tn The construction uses the deictic particle and the participle to express the imminent future, what God was about to do. Here is the first announcement of the theophany.
  2. Exodus 19:9 tn Heb “the thickness of the cloud”; KJV, ASV, NASB, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT “in a thick cloud.”
  3. Exodus 19:9 tn Since “and also in you” begins the clause, the emphasis must be that the people would also trust Moses. See Exod 4:1-9, 31; 14:31.