³ I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

¹² I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.

²¹ Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt."

¹¹ He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion around him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

¹² At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.

⁴⁵ Now from the sixth hour{noon} there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.{3:00 P. M.}