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 MOUNT SINAI TOWIiRING ABOVE; THE PLAIN OF' ASSEMBLAGE 



Here on this plain, where the goats and sheep are now grazing, there were gathered the 

 Children of Israel during the 40 days and 40 nights that Moses, obscured from sight on the 

 mountain-top by the clouds, was holding communion with Jehovah, just previous to the 

 deliverance of the Ten Commandments. 



"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 exceedmg loud; 

 so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. And Moses brought forth the people 

 out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the rnount. And 

 Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it m fire; and 

 the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. 

 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses 

 spake, and God answered him by a voice. And the Lord came down upon Mount Smai. 

 on the top of the mount; and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses 

 went up." Exodus xix : 16-20. 



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