19:9 The Lord said to Moses, “I am going to come18 to you in a dense cloud,19 so that the people may hear when I speak with you and so that they will always believe in you.”20 And Moses told the words of the people to the Lord.
tn The construction uses the deictic particle and the participle to express the imminent future, what God was about to do. Here is the first announcement of the theophany.