The like evidence as to the local, personal presence of Jehovah on such occasions, results from the use of the word translated _came down_, _descended_, where his presence or the local exercise of his prerogatives is mentioned. Thus, with reference to Babel and the dispersion: "Jehovah _came down_ to see the city and the tower.... So Jehovah scattered them abroad," &c. Gen. xi. 5. So on the occasion of his first visible appearance to Moses: "Melach Jehovah appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon Elohim. And Jehovah said, I am _come down_ to deliver them," &c. Exod. iii. Again: "Jehovah _came down_ upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount; and Jehovah called Moses up to the top of the mount, and Moses went up." Exod. xix. 20. And when Moses took the two tables of stone up to the top of Sinai, "Jehovah _descended_ in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah." Exod. xxxv. At the consecration of the seventy elders, "Jehovah _came down_ in a cloud, and spake unto Moses." Numbers xi. 25. At the sedition of Miriam and Aaron, "Jehovah _came down_ in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and said, Hear now my words." Ibid. xii. 5. These and various other passages clearly import a personal descent in a visible form; and no less clearly indicate, by the titles, occasions and acts narrated, that it was the delegated One, the Word, to whom all such manifestations refer, conformably to the allusion to the ascension of Christ, Ephes. iv.: "He that _descended_ is the same also that _ascended_ up far above all heavens." The word translated _appeared_, in all the instances of local personal manifestation, literally means _appeared visibly_, _was seen_; as Gen. i. 9: "Let the dry land _appear_;" Gen. viii. 5: "The tops of the mountains _were seen_;" and vii. 1: "Thee have I _seen_ righteous;" ix. 14: "The bow _shall be seen_;" xxxi. 42: "Elohim hath seen mine affliction;" xlviii. 3: "El-Shadai _appeared unto me_ at Luz;" literally, _was seen by me_. Judges xiii. 22: "We _have seen_ Elohim." Exod. xxiv. 10: "And they saw the Elohe of Israel." This will be further illustrated by reference to particular instances mentioned in the book of Genesis. "And Jehovah appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto Jehovah who appeared unto him." Chap. lxii. 7. That this was a visible manifestation, is indicated not only by the obvious import of the terms employed, but by Abram's building an altar, and consecrating the locality as a place of worship, and of typical offerings to Jehovah.