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the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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New Century Version

Deuteronomy 31:15

The Lord appeared at the Meeting Tent in a cloud; the cloud stood over the entrance of the Tent.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Cloud;   Death;   God;   Minister, Christian;   Tabernacle;   Thompson Chain Reference - Cloud;   Fire;   Manifestations, Special Divine;   Mysteries-Revelations;   Pillar of Cloud;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Law;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Cloud, Cloud of the Lord;   Forgiveness;   Testimony;   Theophany;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Hilkiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Joshua;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Deuteronomy, the Book of;   Joshua;   Pillar of Cloud and Fire;   Tabernacle;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Cloud;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   Moses;   Pillar;   Tabernacle;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hafṭarah;   Joshua, Book of;   Providence;   Sidra;   Song of Moses;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
the Lord appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood at the entrance to the tent.
Hebrew Names Version
The LORD appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
King James Version
And the Lord appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
Lexham English Bible
And Yahweh appeared in the tent in a column of cloud, and the column of the cloud stood at the entrance of the tent.
English Standard Version
And the Lord appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud. And the pillar of cloud stood over the entrance of the tent.
New English Translation
The Lord appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud that stood above the door of the tent.
Amplified Bible
Then the LORD appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood beside the doorway of the tent.
New American Standard Bible
And the LORD appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood at the entrance of the tent.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lorde appeared in the Tabernacle, in the pillar of a cloude: and the pillar of the cloude stoode ouer the doore of the Tabernacle.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Yahweh appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood at the doorway of the tent.
Contemporary English Version
and the Lord appeared in a thick cloud right over the entrance to the tent.
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai appeared in the tent in a column of cloud; the column of cloud stood above the entrance to the tent.
Darby Translation
And Jehovah appeared at the tent in the pillar of cloud; and the pillar of cloud stood over the entrance to the tent.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord appeared at the Tent in a tall cloud. The tall cloud stood over the entrance of the Tent.
George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of cloud; and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
Good News Translation
and the Lord appeared to them there in a pillar of cloud that stood by the door of the Tent.
Literal Translation
And Jehovah appeared at the tabernacle in a pillar of cloud; and the pillar of cloud stood at the door of the tabernacle.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the LORDE appeared in the Tabernacle in a cloudy pyler and the same cloudy pyler stode in the dore of the Tabernacle.
American Standard Version
And Jehovah appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
Bible in Basic English
And the Lord was seen in the Tent in a pillar of cloud resting by the door of the Tent.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde appeared in the tabernacle, euen in the piller of the cloude: and the piller of the cloude stoode ouer the doore of the tabernacle.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud; and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
King James Version (1611)
And the Lord appeared in the Tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloude stood ouer the doore of the Tabernacle.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord descended in a cloud, and stood by the doors of the tabernacle of testimony; and the pillar of the cloud stood by the doors of the tabernacle of testimony.
English Revised Version
And the LORD appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
Berean Standard Bible
Then the LORD appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood over the entrance to the tent.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and the Lord apperide there in a pilere of cloude, that stood in the entryng of the tabernacle.
Young's Literal Translation
and Jehovah is seen in the tent, in a pillar of a cloud; and the pillar of the cloud standeth at the opening of the tent.
Update Bible Version
And Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud; and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
World English Bible
Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
New King James Version
Now the LORD appeared at the tabernacle in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood above the door of the tabernacle.
New Living Translation
And the Lord appeared to them in a pillar of cloud that stood at the entrance to the sacred tent.
New Life Bible
The Lord showed Himself in a pillar of cloud which stayed at the door of the tent.
New Revised Standard
and the Lord appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud; the pillar of cloud stood at the entrance to the tent.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh appeared in the tent, in a pillar of cloud, - and the pillar of cloud stood, at the entrance of the tent.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord appeared there in the pillar of a cloud, which stood in the entry of the tabernacle.
Revised Standard Version
And the LORD appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud; and the pillar of cloud stood by the door of the tent.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The LORD appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood at the doorway of the tent.

Contextual Overview

14 The Lord said to Moses, "Soon you will die. Get Joshua and come to the Meeting Tent so that I may command him." So Moses and Joshua went to the Meeting Tent. 15 The Lord appeared at the Meeting Tent in a cloud; the cloud stood over the entrance of the Tent. 16 And the Lord said to Moses, "You will soon die. Then these people will not be loyal to me but will worship the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will leave me, breaking the Agreement I made with them. 17 Then I will become very angry at them, and I will leave them. I will turn away from them, and they will be destroyed. Many terrible things will happen to them. Then they will say, ‘It is because God is not with us that these terrible things are happening.' 18 I will surely turn away from them then, because they have done wrong and have turned to other gods. 19 "Now write down this song and teach it to the Israelites. Then have them sing it, because it will be my witness against them. 20 When I bring them into the land I promised to their ancestors, a fertile land, they will eat as much as they want and get fat. Then they will turn to other gods and serve them. They will reject me and break my Agreement. 21 Then when many troubles and terrible things happen to them, this song will testify against them, because the song will not be forgotten by their descendants. I know what they plan to do, even before I take them into the land I promised them."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 33:9, Exodus 33:10, Exodus 40:38, Psalms 99:7

Reciprocal: Isaiah 10:4 - Without me

Cross-References

Genesis 30:26
Give me my wives and my children and let me go. I have earned them by working for you, and you know that I have served you well."
Genesis 31:7
but he cheated me and changed my pay ten times. But God has not allowed your father to harm me.
Genesis 31:11
The angel of God spoke to me in that dream and said, ‘Jacob!' I answered, ‘Yes!'
Genesis 31:15
He has treated us like strangers. He sold us to you, and then he spent all of the money you paid for us.
Genesis 31:20
And Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean by not telling him he was leaving.
Genesis 31:27
Why did you run away secretly and trick me? Why didn't you tell me? Then I could have sent you away with joy and singing and with the music of tambourines and harps.
Genesis 31:30
I know you want to go back to your home, but why did you steal my idols?"
Genesis 31:41
I worked like a slave for you for twenty years—the first fourteen to get your two daughters and the last six to earn your flocks. During that time you changed my pay ten times.
Nehemiah 5:8
I said to them, "As much as possible, we have bought freedom for our fellow Jews who had been sold to foreigners. Now you are selling your fellow Jews to us!" The leaders were quiet and had nothing to say.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of cloud,.... As he was wont to do, see Exodus 33:9; in which cloud there was a lustre, a brightness, a glory visible, which showed that he was there:

and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle; it seems to have appeared first in the tabernacle, and then it came out of it, and stood over the door of it, near to which Moses and Joshua were: the Targum of Jonathan adds,

"Moses and Joshua stood without;''

though the former clause, according to Noldius b, should be "over the tabernacle", or above where the cloud was wont to be.

b Concord. Ebr. Part. p. 164. No. 737.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The transaction recorded in these verses may be regarded as the solemn inauguration of Joshua to the office to which he had some time before Numbers 27:22 been called, and his recognition in it by God, which were manifested by his being summoned into the tabernacle with Moses while the Lord appeared in the pillar of cloud (compare Numbers 11:25; Numbers 12:5).

Deuteronomy 31:16

The future apostasy of the people is announced in the presence of Joshua that the latter might be fully aware of the danger and strive in his day to avert it. This he faithfully did (compare Joshua 24:31); but we find him in his own last address to Israel repeating Joshua 23:15-16 the self-same prediction and warning.

Deuteronomy 31:19

A witness for me against them - i. e., an attestation from their own mouths at once of God’s benefits, their own duties, and their deserts when they should fall away. Being in verse it would be the more easily learned and kept in memory. The use of songs for such didactic purposes was not unknown to the legislators of antiquity. Compare also the advice of Paul, “teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs” Colossians 3:16.

Deuteronomy 31:23

He gave - i. e., the Lord gave.


 
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