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the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Exodus 24:15

And Moses went vp into the Mount, and a cloud couered the Mount.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Law;   Miracles;   Sinai;   Thompson Chain Reference - Cloud;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Clouds;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Baal;   Moses;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Cloud, Cloud of the Lord;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Joshua;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cloud;   Exodus, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Exodus;   Moses;   Priests and Levites;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Events of the Encampment;   Other Laws;   Tabernacle, the;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ancients;   Omnipresence;   Sinai;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Holiness;   Revelation;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Moshe went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
King James Version
And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
Lexham English Bible
And Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
New Century Version
When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it.
New English Translation
Moses went up the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
Amplified Bible
Then Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
New American Standard Bible
Then Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Moses went vp to the mount, and the cloude couered the mountaine,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
Contemporary English Version
When Moses went up on Mount Sinai, a cloud covered it,
Complete Jewish Bible
(S: Maftir) Moshe went up onto the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
Darby Translation
And Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Moses went up the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
English Standard Version
Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
George Lamsa Translation
And Moses went up to the mountain, and a cloud covered the mountain.
Good News Translation
Moses went up Mount Sinai, and a cloud covered it.
Christian Standard Bible®
When Moses went up the mountain, the cloud covered it.
Literal Translation
And Moses went up into the mountain. And a cloud covered the mountain.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Now wha Moses came vp in to ye mout, a cloude mount:
American Standard Version
And Moses went up into the mount, and the cloud covered the mount.
Bible in Basic English
And Moses went up into the mountain, and it was covered by the cloud.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses went vp into the mount, aud a cloude couered the hyll.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses went up into the mount, and the cloud covered the mount.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses and Joshua went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
English Revised Version
And Moses went up into the mount, and the cloud covered the mount.
Berean Standard Bible
When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne Moises hadde stied,
Young's Literal Translation
And Moses goeth up unto the mount, and the cloud covereth the mount;
Update Bible Version
And Moses went up into the mount, and the cloud covered the mount.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses went up upon the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
World English Bible
Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
New King James Version
Then Moses went up into the mountain, and a cloud covered the mountain.
New Living Translation
Then Moses climbed up the mountain, and the cloud covered it.
New Life Bible
Then Moses went up on the mountain, which was covered with a cloud.
New Revised Standard
Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So then Moses wont up into the mountain, - and the cloud covered the mountain.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when Moses was gone up, a cloud covered the mount.
Revised Standard Version
Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
THE MESSAGE
Then Moses climbed the mountain. The Cloud covered the mountain. The Glory of God settled over Mount Sinai. The Cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called out of the Cloud to Moses. In the view of the Israelites below, the Glory of God looked like a raging fire at the top of the mountain.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

Contextual Overview

12 And the Lord sayd vnto Moses, Come vp to me into the mount, and be there, and I will giue thee Tables of stone, and a Law, and Commandements which I haue written, that thou mayest teach them. 13 And Moses rose vp, and his minister Ioshua: and Moses went vp into the mount of God. 14 And hee saide vnto the Elders, Tary ye here for vs, vntill wee come againe vnto you: and behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: If any man haue any matters to doe, let him come vnto them. 15 And Moses went vp into the Mount, and a cloud couered the Mount. 16 And the glory of the Lord abode vpon mount Sinai, and the cloud couered it sixe dayes: and the seuenth day hee called vnto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17 And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like deuouring fire, on the top of the mount, in the eyes of the children of Israel. 18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gate him vp into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty dayes, and forty nights.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a cloud: Exodus 19:9, Exodus 19:16, 2 Chronicles 6:1, Matthew 17:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:1 - the mountain Exodus 4:27 - the mount Exodus 19:3 - went up Exodus 24:1 - Come up Exodus 24:2 - General Exodus 24:12 - Come up Deuteronomy 9:9 - I was Habakkuk 3:3 - His glory

Cross-References

Genesis 11:27
Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begate Abram, Nahor, and Haran: And Haran begate Lot.
Genesis 21:14
And Abraham rose vp earely in the morning, and tooke bread, and a bottle of water, and gaue it vnto Hagar, (putting it on her shoulder,) and the child, and sent her away: and shee departed, and wandered in the wildernesse of Beer-sheba.
Genesis 24:18
And she said, Drinke, my lord: and she hasted, and let downe her pitcher vpon her hand, and gaue him drinke.
Genesis 24:19
And when shee had done giuing him drinke, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, vntill they haue done drinking.
Genesis 24:20
And she hasted and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ranne againe vnto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.
Genesis 24:23
And said, whose daughter art thou? tell mee, I pray thee: is there roome in thy fathers house for vs to lodge in?
Genesis 24:24
And she said vnto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the sonne of Milcah, which she bare vnto Nahor:
Genesis 24:36
And Sarah my masters wife bare a sonne to my master when shee was old: and vnto him hath hee giuen all that he hath.
Genesis 24:40
And hee saide vnto me, The LORD, before whom I walke, will send his Angel with thee, and prosper thy way: and thou shalt take a wife for my sonne, of my kinred, and of my fathers house.
Genesis 24:45
And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth, with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went downe vnto the well, and drew water: and I said vnto her, Let me drinke, I pray thee.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses went up into the mount,.... To the top of it, and as it seems alone, leaving Joshua behind in a lower part of the mountain:

and a cloud covered the mount; in which cloud Jehovah was.


 
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