9 At this Jehovah said to Moses: “Look! I am coming to you in a dark cloud,+ in order that the people may hear when I speak with you,+ and that in you also they may put faith to time indefinite.”+ Then Moses reported the words of the people to Jehovah.

18 And Mount Siʹnai smoked all over,+ due to the fact that Jehovah came down upon it in fire;+ and its smoke kept ascending like the smoke of a kiln,+ and the whole mountain was trembling very much.+

12 And Jehovah began to speak to YOU out of the middle of the fire.+ The sound of words was what YOU were hearing, but no form+ were YOU seeing—nothing but a voice.+