Chapter Book
Loading
Change Translation
Loading...
  • Recent Translations
  • All Translations

Exodus 24:12-18

Share

Settings

12 The LORD said to Moses, 1"Come up to me on the mountain and wait there, that I may give you the 2tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction."
13 So Moses rose with his assistant 3Joshua, and Moses went up 4into the mountain of God.
14 And he said to the elders, "Wait here for us until we return to you. And behold, Aaron and 5Hur are with you. Whoever has a dispute, let him go to them."
15 Then Moses went up on the mountain, and 6the cloud covered the mountain.
16 7The glory of the LORD dwelt on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
17 Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a 8devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel.
18 Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses 9was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Read Chapter Compare

Exodus 24:12-18 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 24

In this chapter we have an account that Moses was ordered to come up to the Lord alone, Ex 24:1,2, but that before he did go up, he related to the people all the above laws delivered to him, which they promised obedience to, and so a covenant was made between God and the people by sacrifice, and by the sprinkling of blood, Ex 24:3-8, upon which he and Aaron, and his two sons and seventy elders of Israel, went up part of the mountain, and had a vision of God, Ex 24:9-11, when Moses with Joshua was called, and went up higher, until at length he entered into the cloud where the Lord was, and continued forty days and forty nights, Ex 24:12-18.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 9

  • 1. ver. 2, 15, 18
  • 2. Exodus 31:18; Exodus 32:15, 16; Deuteronomy 5:22
  • 3. Exodus 33:11; [Exodus 17:9, 10]
  • 4. See Exodus 3:1
  • 5. Exodus 17:10, 12; Exodus 31:2
  • 6. Exodus 19:9, 16; [Matthew 17:5]
  • 7. Exodus 16:10; Leviticus 9:23; Numbers 14:10; Numbers 16:42
  • 8. Exodus 3:2; Exodus 19:18; Deuteronomy 4:36; Hebrews 12:18, 29
  • 9. Exodus 34:28; Deut. 9:9, 18, 25; Deuteronomy 10:10
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.