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Exodus 34:5

And the Lord came down in the cloud and took his place by the side of Moses, and Moses gave worship to the name of the Lord.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Cloud;   Glory;   God;   Thompson Chain Reference - Cloud;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Access to God;   Cloud of Glory;   Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Glory of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Goodness;   Moses;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Building;   Cloud, Cloud of the Lord;   Condemnation;   Israel;   Theophany;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jacob;   Jehoiakim;   Manoah;   Name;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Clouds;   Exodus, Book of;   Writing;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hexateuch;   Law;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Cloud ;   Transfiguration (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Sinai;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mo'ses;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Events of the Encampment;   Other Laws;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cloud;   Descend;   Glory;   God;   Sabbath;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Atonement;   Fasting and Fast-Days;   Law, Reading from the;   Middot, Shelosh-'esreh;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
King James Version
And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord .
Lexham English Bible
And Yahweh descended in the cloud, and he stood with him there, and he proclaimed the name of Yahweh.
New Century Version
Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with Moses, and the Lord called out his name: the Lord .
New English Translation
The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the Lord by name.
Amplified Bible
Then the LORD descended in the cloud and stood there with Moses as he proclaimed the Name of the LORD.
New American Standard Bible
And the LORD descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he called upon the name of the LORD.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lorde descended in the cloude, and stoode with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Yahweh descended in the cloud and stood there with him, and He called upon the name of Yahweh.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord God came down in a cloud and stood beside Moses there on the mountain. God spoke his holy name, "the Lord ."
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai descended in the cloud, stood with him there and pronounced the name of Adonai .
Darby Translation
And Jehovah came down in the cloud, and stood beside him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the Lord came down to him in a cloud, stood there with Moses, and spoke his own name.
English Standard Version
The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord .
George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there and announced the name of the LORD.
Good News Translation
The Lord came down in a cloud, stood with him there, and pronounced his holy name, the Lord .
Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord came down in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed his name, “the Lord.”
Literal Translation
And Jehovah came down in the cloud. And he placed himself there with Him, and he called on the name of Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The came the LORDE downe in a cloude. And there he stepte vnto him, & called vpo ye name of ye LORDE.
American Standard Version
And Jehovah descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lord descended in the cloude, and stode with him there: and he called vpon the name of the Lorde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the Name of the Lord.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord descended in a cloud, and stood near him there, and called by the name of the Lord.
English Revised Version
And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
And the LORD descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the LORD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne the Lord hadde come doun bi a cloude, Moises stood with hym, and clepide inwardli `the name of the Lord;
Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah cometh down in a cloud, and stationeth Himself with him there, and calleth in the Name of Jehovah,
Update Bible Version
And Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
World English Bible
Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Yahweh.
New King James Version
Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
New Living Translation
Then the Lord came down in a cloud and stood there with him; and he called out his own name, Yahweh.
New Life Bible
The Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with Moses as he called upon the name of the Lord.
New Revised Standard
The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name, "The Lord ."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh descended in the cloud, and took his station with him there, - and proclaimed himself by the name Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when the Lord was come down in a cloud, Moses stood with him, calling upon the name of the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
And the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The LORD descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he called upon the name of the LORD.

Contextual Overview

5 And the Lord came down in the cloud and took his place by the side of Moses, and Moses gave worship to the name of the Lord. 6 And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith; 7 Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation. 8 Then Moses quickly went down on his face in worship. 9 And he said, If now I have grace in your eyes, let the Lord go among us, for this is a stiff-necked people, and give us forgiveness for our wrongdoing and our sin, and take us for your heritage.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

descended: Exodus 19:18, Exodus 33:9, Numbers 11:17, Numbers 11:25, 1 Kings 8:10-12, Luke 9:34, Luke 9:35

the name: Exodus 33:19, Numbers 14:17, Deuteronomy 32:3, Psalms 102:21, Proverbs 18:10, Isaiah 1:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 16:13 - Thou Exodus 19:11 - the Lord Exodus 23:21 - my name Exodus 34:14 - whose Numbers 6:27 - put my Numbers 12:5 - General Numbers 12:8 - similitude Deuteronomy 28:58 - fear this glorious 1 Kings 8:42 - great name Psalms 8:1 - how Psalms 9:10 - know Psalms 20:1 - name Psalms 48:10 - According Psalms 96:8 - the glory Psalms 130:4 - But there Psalms 135:1 - Praise ye the name Psalms 135:13 - Thy name Proverbs 30:4 - what is his name Song of Solomon 1:3 - thy name Isaiah 12:4 - call upon his name Isaiah 52:6 - my people Isaiah 60:9 - unto Jeremiah 9:24 - lovingkindness Micah 6:9 - the man of wisdom shall see thy name John 1:18 - he hath John 14:8 - show John 17:6 - have manifested Acts 1:9 - a cloud 2 Corinthians 4:6 - the light

Cross-References

Genesis 30:35
So that day he took all the he-goats which were banded or coloured, and all the she-goats which were marked or coloured or had white marks, and all the black sheep, and gave them into the care of his sons;
Genesis 34:13
But the sons of Jacob gave a false answer to Shechem and Hamor his father, because of what had been done to Dinah their sister.
Genesis 34:14
And they said, It is not possible for us to give our sister to one who is without circumcision, for that would be a cause of shame to us:
Leviticus 10:3
Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord said, I will be holy in the eyes of all those who come near to me, and I will be honoured before all the people. And Aaron said nothing.
1 Samuel 10:27
But certain good-for-nothing persons said, How is this man to be our saviour? And having no respect for him, they gave him no offering.
1 Samuel 16:11
Then Samuel said to Jesse, Are all your children here? And he said, There is still the youngest, and he is looking after the sheep. And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and make him come here: for we will not take our seats till he is here.
1 Samuel 17:15
Now David went to and from Saul, looking after his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.
2 Samuel 13:22
But Absalom said nothing to his brother Amnon, good or bad: for he was full of hate for him, because he had taken his sister Tamar by force.
Psalms 39:9
I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.
Luke 15:25
Now the older son was in the field: and when he came near the house, the sounds of music and dancing came to his ears.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord descended in the cloud,.... The same with the cloudy pillar, which was now gone up from the door of the tabernacle, and was on high in the air over the mount, and on which the Lord now descended in it, as he had before, Exodus 19:9:

and stood with him there; not Moses stood with the Lord, as the Vulgate Latin version; but the Lord, or the cloud in which the Lord was, stood near to Moses:

and proclaimed the name of the Lord: Jehovah declared with a loud voice out of the cloud, that the Lord was there; the Targum of Jonathan is,

"and Moses called on or in the name of the Word of the Lord;''

and so the Vulgate Latin version refers it to Moses, and renders the words, "calling on the name of the Lord"; but the following verse clearly shows that it must be understood of the Lord, and not of Moses.


 
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