"And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was."
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And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to show you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,
These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud where God was.
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the obscurity where God was.
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
And the people stand afar off, and Moses hath drawn nigh unto the thick darkness where God `is'.