Exodus 24 · Verse 13

Exodus 24:13

And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
Exodus 24:13, King James Version

Exodus 24:13 in other translations

BSBSo Moses set out with Joshua his attendant and went up on the mountain of God.
WEBMoses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.
ASVAnd Moses rose up, and Joshua his minister: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
YLTAnd Moses riseth--Joshua his minister also--and Moses goeth up unto the mount of God;
DARBYAnd Moses rose up, and Joshua his attendant; and Moses went up to the mountain of God.
BBEThen Moses and Joshua his servant got up; and Moses went up into the mountain of God.
WebsterAnd Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up upon the mount of God.

What does Exodus 24:13 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
13. Moses went up into the mount of God--He was called to receive the divine transcript. Joshua was taken a little higher, and it would be a great comfort for the leader to have his company during the six days he was in patient waiting for the call on the seventh or sabbath day.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 13 Moses rose up - In Exo 24:16 it is said that the glory of the Lord abode on the mount, and the cloud covered it. The glory was probably above the cloud, and it was to the cloud that Moses and his servant Joshua ascended at this time, leaving Aaron and the elders below. After they had been in this region, viz., where the cloud encompassed the mountain, for six days, God appears to have called Moses up higher: compare verses Exo 24:16 and Exo 24:18. Moses then ascended to the glory, leaving Joshua in the cloud, with whom he had, no doubt, frequent conferences during the forty days he continued with God on the mount.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 24:12-18

A cloud covered the mount six days; a token of God's special presence there. Moses was sure that he who called him up would protect him. Even those glorious attributes of God which are most terrible to the wicked, the saints with humble reverence rejoice in. And through faith in the atoning Sacrifice, we hope for greater honour than Moses ever enjoyed on earth. Now we see through a glass darkly, but when he shall…

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Exodus 24:13 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיָּ֣קָםvai.Ya.komand he aroseH6965
מֹשֶׁ֔הmo.ShehMosesH4872
וִיהוֹשֻׁ֖עַvi.ho.Shu.a'and JoshuaH3091
מְשָׁרְת֑וֹme.sha.re.Toservant hisH8334
וַיַּ֥עַלvai.Ya.'aland he went upH5927
מֹשֶׁ֖הmo.ShehMosesH4872
אֶל\־'el-toH413
הַ֥רhar[the] mountain ofH2022
הָאֱלֹהִֽים\׃ha.'E.lo.Him<the> GodH430

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Exodus 24:13

  • Exodus 33:11

    And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.

  • Numbers 11:28

    And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.

  • Exodus 17:9-14

    And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand. So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. …

  • Exodus 3:1

    Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.

  • Exodus 32:17

    And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
his minister.
17:9-14; 32:17; 33:11; Nu 11:28
went up.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Exodus 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.

  • Exodus 24:13

    And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.

  • Exodus 24:14

    And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.

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Exodus 24:13 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y levantóse Moisés, y Josué su ministro; y Moisés subió al monte de Dios.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Moïse se leva, avec Josué qui le servait; et Moïse monta sur la montagne de Dieu,
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und Mose machte sich auf mit Josua, seinem Diener, und Mose stieg auf den Berg Gottes.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Surrexerunt Moyses et Josue minister ejus: ascendensque Moyses in montem Dei,