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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Exodus 24:15

So then Moses wont up into the mountain, - and the cloud covered the mountain.

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.
King James Version (1611)
And Moses went vp into the Mount, and a cloud couered 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.
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 Then said Yahweh unto Moses - Come thou up unto me in the mountain and remain thou there, - for I must give thee tables of stone and the law and the commandment, which I have written to direct them. 13 And Moses rose up, and Joshua his attendant, and Moses went up into the mountain of God; 14 but, unto the elders, he said - Tarry for us here, until we return unto you. And lo! Aaron and Hur, are with you, he that hath a cause, let him draw near unto them. 15 So then Moses wont up into the mountain, - and the cloud covered the mountain. 16 And the glory of Yahweh rested upon Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days, - then called he unto Moses on the seventh day, out of the midst of the cloud. 17 And the appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like a consuming fire h on the top of the mountain, - in the sight of the sons of Israel. 18 And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud and ascended into the mountain. And it came to pass that Moses was in the mountain forty days 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
These, then are the generations of Terah, Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran, - and, Haran, begat Lot;
Genesis 21:14
So Abraham rose up early in the morning - and took bread and a skin of water and gave unto hagar, - putting them on her shoulder and the child, and sent her forth, - so she went her way and wandered, in the desert of Beer-sheba.
Genesis 24:18
And she said, Drink my lord, - And she hastened and lowered her pitcher on her hand and let him drink.
Genesis 24:19
And when she had done giving him drink, - she said For thy camels also, will I draw, until they have done drinking.
Genesis 24:20
So she hastened and emptied her pitcher into the drinking-trough, and ran again unto the well, to draw, - and she drew for all his camels.
Genesis 24:23
and said Whose daughter art, thou? I pray thee, tell me. Is there in the house of thy father a place for us to tarry the night?
Genesis 24:24
And she said unto him, Daughter of Bethuel, am, I, - Bethuel son of Milcah whom she bare to Nahor.
Genesis 24:36
then did Sarah wife of my lord, bear a son to my lord, after she had become old, - so he gave to him all that he had;
Genesis 24:40
And he said unto me, - Yahweh, before whom I have walked to and fro, will send his messenger with thee, so shall he prosper thy way, and thou shalt take a wife for my son out of my kindred and out of the house of my father.
Genesis 24:45
Ere yet, I, could make an end of speaking unto mine own heart, lo! then Rebekah, coming forth, with her pitcher on her shoulder, and she went down to the fountain, and drew, - and I said unto her Let me drink 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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