² Then the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire within a bush.^(A) As Moses looked, he saw that the bush was on fire but was not consumed.

¹⁸ Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke because the Lord came down on it in fire.^(A) Its smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace,^(B) and the whole mountain shook violently.^(C)

²³ All of you approached me with your tribal leaders and elders when you heard the voice from the darkness and while the mountain was blazing with fire.

¹⁵ ‘So I went back down the mountain, while it was blazing with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

¹⁸ For you have not come to what could be touched, to a blazing fire, to darkness, gloom, and storm,