Exodus 24:10
Good News Translation
and they saw the God of Israel. Beneath his feet was what looked like a pavement of sapphire, as blue as the sky.

New Revised Standard Version
and they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there was something like a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.

Contemporary English Version
and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something that looked like a pavement made out of sapphire, and it was as bright as the sky.

New American Bible
and they beheld the God of Israel. Under his feet there appeared to be sapphire tilework, as clear as the sky itself.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they saw the God of Israel: and under his feet as it were a work of sapphire stone, and as the heaven, when clear.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they saw the God of Israel: and under his feet as it were a work of sapphire stone, and as the heaven, when clear.

saw

Exodus 3:6 And he said: I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses hid his face: for he durst not look at God.

Exodus 33:20,23 And again he said: Thou canst not see my face: for man shall not see me, and live. . . .

Genesis 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Phanuel, saying: I have seen God face to face, and my soul has been saved.

Judges 13:21,22 And the angel of the Lord appeared to them no more. And forthwith Manue understood that it was an angel of the Lord, . . .

1 Kings 22:19 And he added and said: Hear thou, therefore, the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on the right hand and on the left:

Isaiah 6:1-5 In the year that king Ozias died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and elevated: and his train filled the temple. . . .

Ezekiel 1:28 As the appearance of the rainbow when it is in a cloud on a rainy day: this was the appearance of the brightness round about.

John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time: the only begotten Son who is in the Bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

John 14:9 Jesus saith to him: Have I been so long a time with you and have you not known me? Philip, he that seeth me seeth the Father also. How sayest thou: Shew us the Father?

1 Timothy 6:16 Who only hath immortality and inhabiteth light inaccessible: whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and empire everlasting. Amen.

1 John 4:12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us: and his charity is perfected in us.

of a sapphire stone.

Ezekiel 1:26,27 And above the firmament that was over their heads, was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of the sapphire stone, and upon the likeness of the throne, was the likeness of the appearance of a man above upon it. . . .

Ezekiel 10:1 And I saw and behold in the firmament that was over the heads of the cherubims, there appeared over them as it were the sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

Revelation 4:3 And he that sat was to the sight like the jasper and the sardine stone. And there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

Revelation 21:19-23 And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper: the second, sapphire: the third; a chalcedony: the fourth, an emerald: . . .

in his clearness

Songs 6:10 Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in array?

Matthew 17:2 And he was transfigured before them. And his face did shine as the sun: and his garments became white as snow.

Revelation 1:16 And he had in his right hand seven stars. And from his mouth came out a sharp two-edged sword. And his face was as the sun shineth in his power.

Revelation 21:11,18 Having the glory of God, and the light thereof was like to a precious stone, as to the jasper stone even as crystal. . . .

Context
The Covenant Sealed
9Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel went up: 10And they saw the God of Israel: and under his feet as it were a work of sapphire stone, and as the heaven, when clear.11Neither did he lay his hand upon those of the children of Israel, that retired afar off, and they saw God, and they did eat and drink.…
Cross References
John 1:18
No man hath seen God at any time: the only begotten Son who is in the Bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

John 6:46
Not that any man hath seen the Father: but he who is of God, he hath seen the Father.

Revelation 4:3
And he that sat was to the sight like the jasper and the sardine stone. And there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

Genesis 32:30
And Jacob called the name of the place Phanuel, saying: I have seen God face to face, and my soul has been saved.

Exodus 24:11
Neither did he lay his hand upon those of the children of Israel, that retired afar off, and they saw God, and they did eat and drink.

Numbers 12:8
For I speak to him mouth to mouth: and plainly, and not by riddles and figures doth he see the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak ill of my servant Moses?

Songs 5:14
His hands are turned and as of gold, full of hyacinths. His belly as of ivory, set with sapphires.

Isaiah 6:5
And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts.

Lamentations 4:7
Zain. Her Nazarites were whiter than snow, purer than milk, more ruddy than the old ivory, fairer than the sapphire.

Ezekiel 1:1
Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, when I was in the midst of the captives by the river Chobar, the heavens were opened, and I saw the visions of God.

Ezekiel 1:26
And above the firmament that was over their heads, was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of the sapphire stone, and upon the likeness of the throne, was the likeness of the appearance of a man above upon it.

Ezekiel 10:1
And I saw and behold in the firmament that was over the heads of the cherubims, there appeared over them as it were the sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

Daniel 10:17
And how can the servant of my lord speak with my lord? for no strength remaineth in me; moreover, my breath is stopped.

Exodus 24:9
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