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Exodus 19:14-20 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

14. And Moses came down from the mount to the people, and sanctified them. And when they had washed their garments,

15. He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not near your wives.

16. And now the third day was come, and the morning appeared: and behold thunders began to be heard, and lightning to flash, and a very thick cloud to cover the mount, and the noise of the trumpet sounded exceeding loud, and the people that was in the camp, feared.

17. And when Moses had brought them forth to meet God from the place of the camp, they stood at the bottom of the mount.

18. And all mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: and all the mount was terrible.

19. And the sound of the trumpet grew by degrees louder and louder, and was drawn out to a greater length: Moses spoke, and God answered him.

20. And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, in the very top of the mount, and he called Moses unto the top thereof. And when he was gone up thither,

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