It took three days. Then the sunlight flooded the house again, and it was as if a ten-ton weight had been lifted off our souls. Wow.
Exo 19.11. And be ready by the third day; for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon Mount Sinai:
YHVH is the one in charge always. Here is a related but humorous example (unlike the dreaded Wilma!) as per your topic of Is 9:1(2).
The Sinai is the place the giving of the Torah. Here's the emblem that Egypt chose for itself:
Isaiah 9:1. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; they who dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined:
Jeremiah 2:6. And they did not say, Where is the Lord who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt:
Exodus 34
29. And it came to pass, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of Testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses knew not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him:
30. And when Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come closer to him:
R. Mellinkoff, in her book devoted to this subject,[8] claims that neither Aquilas nor the Vulgate , which both translated keren as the horns of an animal, intended to say that Moses sprouted horns. Rather in the ancient world, and as it seems from numerous Biblical passages, horns were simply a metaphor for might, honor and splendor. It is therefore not surprising that until the 11th century no illustrations are to be found in which Moses is portrayed as having horns.
https://www.biu.ac.il/JH/Parasha/eng/kitisa/gartner.html
Thus, Jerome’s depiction of Moses with horns was not a “mistranslation” but rather an accurate symbolic and intensely positive rendering of the word. Moses was conveying the Divine words that he had just received in a face-to-face meeting with G-d. What greater authority could any human have? This is what Moses’ horns signified, as early readers of the Torah surely understood. They also fit perfectly with Michelangelo’s splendid depiction of a supremely robust, powerful, and Divinely inspired Moses.
Ki Tissa: Moses’ Horns: Not a Mistranslation
Horns (rays) of light: power, might, authority
Habukkuk 3
1. A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth:
2. O Lord, I have heard your report, and I was afraid; O Lord, revive your work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy:
3. God comes from Teman ["south"], and the Holy One from Mount Paran; Selah; His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise:
4. And his brightness is like the light; rays flash from his hand, and there is his power hidden:
Deu 33
1.And this is the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death:
2. And he said, The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir to them; he shone forth from Mount Paran, and he came with holy tens of thousands; from his right hand went a fiery law for them:
3. He truly loves the people; all his holy ones are in your hand; and they sat down at your feet; every one shall receive of your words:
4. Moses commanded us a Torah, the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob:
Exodus 20:18. And the people stood far away, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was:
What's in an emblem? Mysteries of the universe in plain sight. :)
Paran, from para to glorify (פארן)
paran, lighthouse (פרן), from
Pharos
... the prototype for all later lighthouses in the world
Pharaoh (פרעה) = "great house"
Gen 45
19. Now you are commanded to take your wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come:
20. Also give no thought to your goods; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours:
21. And the people of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way:
25. And they went up from Egypt, and came to the land of Canaan to Jacob their father:
26. And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive (chai), and he is governor over all the land of Egypt; And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not:
27. And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them; and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:
28. And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive (chai); I will go and see him before I die:
Wagon Wheel Effect
Fun with the math:
South Sinai - Drom Sinai (דרום סיני) = 380
Egypt - Mitzraim (מצרים) = 380
thick darkness - araphel (ערפל) = 380
To radiate/shine - likron (לקרן), the infinitive of karan, the same as horn, keren = 380
That gets real interesting in terms of 380 compared to 360 degrees in a circle, and frames and images and the perceived direction and motion of time.
when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived (chayah)
Hmmm. 380:360 19:18 Chavah:chai
20. And Adam called his wife's name Eve (Chavah); because she was the mother of all living (chai):
