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Young's Literal Translation

Exodus 34:8

And Moses hasteth, and boweth to the earth, and doth obeisance,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Worship;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bowing;   Prayer;   Worshippers;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Glory;   Moses;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Israel;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jehoiakim;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Writing;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hexateuch;   Law;   Moses;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Transfiguration (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Sinai;   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 - Worship;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Attitudes;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Atonement;   Fasting and Fast-Days;   Law, Reading from the;   Middot, Shelosh-'esreh;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Moshe hurried and bowed his head toward the eretz, and worshiped.
King James Version
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
Lexham English Bible
And Moses hurried and knelt down to the earth and worshiped.
New Century Version
Then Moses quickly bowed to the ground and worshiped.
New English Translation
Moses quickly bowed to the ground and worshiped
Amplified Bible
Moses bowed to the earth immediately and worshiped [the Lord].
New American Standard Bible
And Moses hurried to bow low toward the ground and worship.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Moses made haste & bowed him selfe to the earth, and worshipped,
Legacy Standard Bible
And Moses made haste to bow low toward the earth and worship.
Contemporary English Version
Moses quickly bowed down to the ground and worshiped the Lord .
Complete Jewish Bible
At once Moshe bowed his head to the ground, prostrated himself
Darby Translation
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head to the earth and worshipped,
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Moses quickly bowed to the ground and worshiped the Lord. Moses said,
English Standard Version
And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped.
George Lamsa Translation
And Moses made haste and fell on the ground and worshipped.
Good News Translation
Moses quickly bowed down to the ground and worshiped.
Christian Standard Bible®
Moses immediately knelt low on the ground and worshiped.
Literal Translation
And Moses hurried and bowed to the earth and worshiped.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Moses bowed him self downe vnto the earth, and worshiped him,
American Standard Version
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
Bible in Basic English
Then Moses quickly went down on his face in worship.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses made haste, and bowed hym selfe to the earth, and worshipped,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
King James Version (1611)
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses hasted, and bowed to the earth and worshipped;
English Revised Version
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
Berean Standard Bible
Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And hastili Moises was bowid low `in to erthe, and worschipide,
Update Bible Version
And Moses hurried, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head towards the earth, and worshiped.
World English Bible
Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
New King James Version
So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
New Living Translation
Moses immediately threw himself to the ground and worshiped.
New Life Bible
Moses was quick to put his face to the ground and worship.
New Revised Standard
And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then Moses made haste, - and bent his head towards the earth and bowed himself down;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses making haste, bowed down prostrate unto the earth, and adoring,
Revised Standard Version
And Moses made haste to bow his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
THE MESSAGE
At once, Moses fell to the ground and worshiped, saying, "Please, O Master, if you see anything good in me, please Master, travel with us, hard-headed as these people are. Forgive our iniquity and sin. Own us, possess us."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Moses made haste to bow low toward the earth and worship.

Contextual Overview

5 And Jehovah cometh down in a cloud, and stationeth Himself with him there, and calleth in the Name of Jehovah, 6 and Jehovah passeth over before his face, and calleth: `Jehovah, Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth, 7 keeping kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on children's children, on a third [generation], and on a fourth.' 8 And Moses hasteth, and boweth to the earth, and doth obeisance, 9 and saith, `If, I pray Thee, I have found grace in Thine eyes, O my Lord, let my Lord, I pray Thee, go in our midst (for it [is] a stiff-necked people), and thou hast forgiven our iniquity and our sin, and hast inherited us.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 4:31, Genesis 17:3, 2 Chronicles 20:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:26 - General Genesis 48:12 - he bowed himself Exodus 12:27 - bowed Numbers 22:31 - bowed down Haggai 2:5 - to the 1 Timothy 1:16 - all

Cross-References

Genesis 34:3
and his soul cleaveth to Dinah, daughter of Jacob, and he loveth the young person, and speaketh unto the heart of the young person.
1 Kings 11:2
of the nations of which Jehovah said unto the sons of Israel, `Ye do not go in to them, and they do not go in to you; surely they turn aside your heart after their gods;' to them hath Solomon cleaved for love.
Psalms 63:1
A Psalm of David, in his being in the wilderness of Judah. O God, Thou [art] my God, earnestly do I seek Thee, Thirsted for Thee hath my soul, Longed for Thee hath my flesh, In a land dry and weary, without waters.
Psalms 84:2
My soul desired, yea, it hath also been consumed, For the courts of Jehovah, My heart and my flesh cry aloud unto the living God,
Psalms 119:20
Broken hath my soul for desire Unto Thy judgments at all times.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses made haste,.... Perceiving the voice ceased, and the Lord was passing on, lest he should be gone, and he lose the favourable opportunity he had:

and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped; threw himself prostrate upon it, and in the most humble manner put up his requests to God, which are expressed in the following verse; he gladly laid hold on this opportunity to use his interest with God for the people of Israel, and to improve the proclamation of grace and mercy, in the forgiveness of sins, now made; which encouraged his faith and hope to draw nigh with a holy boldness, and use freedom with him, and yet with an awe of his majesty, with reverence and godly fear.


 
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