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Exodus 24:18

And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

KJV

Ingressusque Moyses medium nebulæ, ascendit in montem : et fuit ibi quadraginta diebus, et quadraginta noctibus.

Vulgate

Καὶ εἰσῆλθεν Μωυσῆς εἰς τὸ μέσον τῆς νεφέλης καὶ ἀνέβη εἰς τὸ ὄρος, καὶ ἦν ἐκεῖ ἐν τῷ ὄρει τεσσεράκοντα ἡμέρας καὶ τεσσεράκοντα νύκτας.

LXX

And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

ASV

וַ/יָּבֹ֥א מֹשֶׁ֛ה בְּ/ת֥וֹךְ הֶ/עָנָ֖ן וַ/יַּ֣עַל אֶל הָ/הָ֑ר וַ/יְהִ֤י מֹשֶׁה֙ בָּ/הָ֔ר אַרְבָּעִ֣ים י֔וֹם וְ/אַרְבָּעִ֖ים לָֽיְלָה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
אַרְבָּעִ֥ים
'rb'ym
adjective · 135×
בָּ֣א
b'
verb · 2573×
הַ֣ר
hr
noun · 544×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
יַּ֥עַל
y'l
verb · 885×
לָ֑יְלָה
lylh
noun · 234×
מֹשֶׁ֔ה
mshh
proper_noun · 750×
עָנָ֖ן
'nn
noun · 87×
ת֣וֹךְ
tvk
noun · 416×

Historic Christian voices

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

§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…
But let us inquire if the Lord has really given that testament which He swore to the fathers that He would give to the people. He gave it; but they were not worthy to receive it, on account of their sins.

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 19:8 — And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
  • 1Kgs 19:11 — And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the
  • 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
  • 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
  • Deut 9:18 — And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the
  • Deut 9:25 — Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
  • Deut 10:10 — And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.
  • 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.
  • Exod 32:1 — And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for
  • Exod 32:15 — And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
  • Exod 34:28 — And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
  • Exod 34:28 — And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
  • Matt 4:2 — And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.