Exodus 34 · Verse 2

Exodus 34:2

And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
Exodus 34:2, King James Version

Exodus 34:2 in other translations

BSBBe ready in the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai to present yourself before Me on the mountaintop.
WEBBe ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.
ASVAnd be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me on the top of the mount.
YLTand be prepared at morning, and thou hast come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and hast stood before Me there, on the top of the mount,
DARBYAnd be ready for the morning, and go up in the morning to mount Sinai, and stand there before me on the top of the mountain.
BBEAnd be ready by the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai, and come before me there in the morning, on the top of the mountain.
WebsterAnd be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me on the top of the mount.

What does Exodus 34:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
2. present thyself ... to me in the top of the mount--Not absolutely the highest peak; for as the cloud of the Shekinah usually abode on the summit, and yet (Ex 34:5) it "descended," the plain inference is that Moses was to station himself at a point not far distant, but still below the loftiest pinnacle.

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

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 34:1-4

When God made man in his own image, the moral law was written in his heart, by the finger of God, without outward means. But since the covenant then made with man was broken, the Lord has used the ministry of men, both in writing the law in the Scriptures, and in writing it in the heart. When God was reconciled to the Israelites, he ordered the tables to be renewed, and wrote his law in them. Even under the gospel…

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Exodus 34:2 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.

וֶהְיֵ֥הveh.Yehand beH1961
נָכ֖וֹןna.KhonpreparedH3559
לַבֹּ֑קֶרla.Bo.kerto the morningH1242
וְעָלִ֤יתָve.'a.Li.taand you will go upH5927
בַבֹּ֙קֶר֙va.Bo.kerin the morningH1242
אֶל\־'el-toH413
הַ֣רhar[the] mountain ofH2022
סִינַ֔יsi.NaiSinaiH5514
וְנִצַּבְתָּ֥ve.ni.tzav.Taand you will station yourselfH5324
לִ֛יlifor <the> me
שָׁ֖םshamthereH8033
עַל\־'al-onH5921
רֹ֥אשׁrosh[the] top ofH7218
הָהָֽר\׃ha.Harthe mountainH2022

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

Cross references for Exodus 34:2

  • 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.

  • Exodus 19:11

    And be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

  • 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 24:12

    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 19:24

    And the Lord said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth upon them.

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in the top.
19:20,24; 24:12; De 9:25

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Context

  • Exodus 34:1

    And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.

  • Exodus 34:2

    And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.

  • Exodus 34:3

    And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.

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Exodus 34:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Apercíbete, pues, para mañana, y sube por la mañana al monte de Sinaí, y estáme allí sobre la cumbre del monte.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et sois prêt au matin, et monte au matin sur la montagne de Sinaï, et tiens-toi là devant moi, sur le sommet de la montagne.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und sei bereit auf den Morgen, und steige am Morgen auf den Berg Sinai und stehe daselbst vor mir auf dem Gipfel des Berges.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Esto paratus mane, ut ascendas statim in montem Sinai, stabisque mecum super verticem montis.