Exodus 24:10

WEB

¹⁰They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire^[+] stone, like the skies for clearness.

KJV

¹⁰And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

BSB

¹⁰and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.

FBV

¹⁰and they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a tiled pavement made of lapis lazuli, as clear blue as the sky itself.

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Extra References

John 1:18

¹⁸^[+] No one has seen God at any time. The only born^[+] Son,^[+] who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

Ezekiel 10:1

¹Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire^[+] stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

Exodus 33:23

²³then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen.”

Genesis 32:30

³⁰Jacob called the name of the place Peniel;^[+] for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

Exodus 33:20

²⁰He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.”

¹In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. ²Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew. ³One called to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!”

⁴The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. ⁵Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Armies!”

1 Timothy 6:16

¹⁶He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen nor can see, to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

Revelation 4:3

³that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at.

Ezekiel 1:26-28

²⁶Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire^[+] stone. On the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above. ²⁷I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it all around, from the appearance of his waist and upward; and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him. ²⁸As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the LORD’s glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.

1 John 4:12

¹²No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.