The Lord said to Moses: I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people may hear me speaking with you and will always put their trust in you. Then Moses told the Lord what the people had said. God's plan to come in a dense cloud serves a dual purpose: the people hear God speaking with Moses, which authenticates Moses' mediatorial role; and the authentication produces trust in Moses that will sustain Israel through the wilderness. John 12:28–30 records a voice from heaven that some heard as thunder and some as an angel — the auditory divine presence at Sinai is the Old Testament version of the divine voice that authenticates the Son at the transfiguration. The cloud that carries God's voice at Sinai is the cloud of the transfiguration in Matthew 17:5.

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