Exodus 24:12-18

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.

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.

Cross References

• 1. 24:12 ver. 2, 15, 18
• 2. 24:12 ch. 31:18; 32:15, 16; Deut. 5:22
• 3. 24:13 ch. 33:11; [ch. 17:9, 10]
• 4. 24:13 See ch. 3:1
• 5. 24:14 ch. 17:10, 12; 31:2
• 6. 24:15 ch. 19:9, 16; [Matt. 17:5]
• 7. 24:16 ch. 16:10; Lev. 9:23; Num. 14:10; 16:42
• 8. 24:17 ch. 3:2; 19:18; Deut. 4:36; Heb. 12:18, 29
• 9. 24:18 ch. 34:28; Deut. 9:9, 18, 25; 10:10