Exodus 24:15

And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
KJV

Cumque ascendisset Moyses, operuit nubes montem,
Vulgate

καὶ ἀνέβη Μωυσῆς καὶ Ἰησοῦς εἰς τὸ ὄρος, καὶ ἐκάλυψεν ἡ νεφέλη τὸ ὄρος.
LXX

And Moses went up into the mount, and the cloud covered the mount.
ASV

וַ/יַּ֥עַל מֹשֶׁ֖ה אֶל הָ/הָ֑ר וַ/יְכַ֥ס הֶ/עָנָ֖ן אֶת הָ/הָֽר
Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶל

preposition · 5475×

אֶת

pronoun · 10895×

הַ֣ר

noun · 544×

יַּ֥עַל

y'l

verb · 885×

מְכַסֶּ֣ה

mksh

verb · 152×

מֹשֶׁ֔ה

mshh

proper_noun · 750×

עָנָ֖ן

'nn

noun · 87×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Catechism of the Catholic Church · 2 passages

§697Cloud and light. These two images occur together in the manifestations of the Holy Spirit. In the theophanies of the Old Testament, the cloud, now obscure, now luminous, reveals the living and saving God, while veiling the transcendence of his glory - with Moses on Mount Sinai,43 at the tent of meeting,44 and during the wandering in the desert,45 and with Solomon at the dedicat…

§2085The one and true God first reveals his glory to Israel.6 The revelation of the vocation and truth of man is linked to the revelation of God. Man's vocation is to make God manifest by acting in conformity with his creation "in the image and likeness of God": There will never be another God, Trypho, and there has been no other since the world began . . . than he who made and orde…

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Cross-references

2Chr 6:1 — Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
Deut 9:9 — When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat
Exod 19:9 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.
Exod 19:9 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.
Exod 19:16 — And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that
Exod 24:2 — And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
Exod 24:12 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
Matt 17:5 — While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.