Exodus 24 · Verse 18

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.
Exodus 24:18, King James Version

Exodus 24:18 in other translations

BSBMoses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
WEBMoses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
ASVAnd 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.
YLTand Moses goeth into the midst of the cloud, and goeth up unto the mount, and Moses is on the mount forty days and forty nights.
DARBYAnd Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and ascended the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
BBEAnd Moses went up the mountain, into the cloud, and was there for forty days and forty nights.
WebsterAnd Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and ascended the mount: and Moses was on the mount forty days and forty nights.

What does Exodus 24:18 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
18. Moses went into the midst of the cloud--the visible token of God's presence. Divine grace animated and supported him to enter with holy boldness. Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights--The six days spent in waiting are not included. During that protracted period he was miraculously supported (De 9:9), on a peak scarcely thirty paces in compass.

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 18 Forty days and forty nights - During the whole of this time he neither ate bread nor drank water; see Exo 34:28; Deu 9:9. Both his body and soul were so sustained by the invigorating presence of God, that he needed no earthly support, and this may be the simple reason why he took none. Elijah fasted forty days and forty nights, sustained by the same influence, 1Kgs 19:8; as did likewise our blessed Lord, when he was about to commence the public ministry of his own Gospel, Mat 4:2. 1. Moses, who was the mediator of the Old Covenant, is alone permitted to draw nigh to God; none of the people are suffered to come up to the Divine glory, not even Aaron, nor his sons, nor the nobles of Israel. Moses was a type of Christ, who is the mediator of the New Covenant; and he alone has access to God in behalf of the human race, as Moses had in behalf of Israel. 2. The law can inspire nothing but terror, when viewed unconnected with its sacrifices, and those sacrifices are nothing but as they refer to Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, who alone by the sacrifice of himself, bears away the sin of the world. 3. The blood of the victims was sprinkled both on the altar and on the people, to show that the death of Christ gave to Divine justice what it demanded, and to men what they needed. The people were sanctified by it unto God, and God was propitiated by it unto the people. By this sacrifice the law was magnified and made honorable, so Divine justice received its due; and those who believe are justified from all guilt, and sanctified from all sin, so they receive all that they need. Thus God is well pleased, and believers eternally saved. This is a glorious economy, highly worthy of God its author.

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 24:18 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.

וַיָּבֹ֥אvai.ya.Vo'and he wentH935
מֹשֶׁ֛הmo.ShehMosesH4872
בְּת֥וֹךְbe.Tokhin [the] midst ofH8432
הֶעָנָ֖ןhe.'a.Nanthe cloudH6051
וַיַּ֣עַלvai.Ya.'aland he went upH5927
אֶל\־'el-toH413
הָהָ֑רha.Harthe mountainH2022
וַיְהִ֤יvay.Hiand he wasH1961
מֹשֶׁה֙mo.ShehMosesH4872
בָּהָ֔רba.Haron the mountainH2022
אַרְבָּעִ֣ים'ar.ba.'ImfortyH705
י֔וֹםYomday[s]H3117
וְאַרְבָּעִ֖יםve.'ar.ba.'Imand fortyH705
לָֽיְלָה\׃\ \פLa.ye.lahnight[s]H3915

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

Cross references for Exodus 24:18

  • Deuteronomy 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 bread nor drink water:

  • Deuteronomy 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.

  • Exodus 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.

  • Deuteronomy 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 Lord, to provoke him to anger.

  • Deuteronomy 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.

  • Exodus 24:17

    And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

  • Exodus 19:20

    And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

  • Luke 4:2

    Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

  • 1 Kings 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.

  • Mark 1:13

    And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.

  • Matthew 4:2

    And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

  • Exodus 9:29

    And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the Lord; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth is the Lord’s.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
went into.
17; 9:29,33; 19:20; Pr 28:1
forty days.
34:28; De 9:9,18,25; 10:10; 1Ki 19:8; Mt 4:2; Mr 1:13; Lu 4:2

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Context

  • Exodus 24:17

    And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

  • 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.

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Exodus 24:18 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y entró Moisés en medio de la nube, y subió al monte: y estuvo Moisés en el monte cuarenta días y cuarenta noches.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Moïse entra au milieu de la nuée, et monta sur la montagne; et Moïse fut sur la montagne 40 jours et 40 nuits.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und Mose ging mitten in die Wolke hinein und stieg auf den Berg; und Mose war auf dem Berge vierzig Tage und vierzig Nächte.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Ingressusque Moyses medium nebulæ, ascendit in montem: et fuit ibi quadraginta diebus, et quadraginta noctibus.