And the glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered the mountain, and on the seventh day the Lord called to Moses from within the cloud. Six days the cloud covers the mountain before the Lord speaks — the creation week pattern applied to the revelation event. On the seventh day, God calls from the cloud. The Sabbath is the day when God speaks at Sinai as it was the day God rested at creation. The convergence of the Sabbath with the moment of divine speech at Sinai connects the creation rest with the covenant revelation. Mark 1:10–11 records the heavens opening and the voice of God at Jesus' baptism — the divine speech from the cloud at Sinai is the type of the divine speech from the opened heaven at the Son's commissioning.

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