Exodus 24:18
New International Version
Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

New Living Translation
Then Moses disappeared into the cloud as he climbed higher up the mountain. He remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

English Standard Version
Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Berean Standard Bible
Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
So Moses went into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

New American Standard Bible
Then Moses entered the midst of the cloud as he went up to the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.

NASB 1995
Moses entered the midst of the cloud as he went up to the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

NASB 1977
And Moses entered the midst of the cloud as he went up to the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Moses entered the midst of the cloud as he went up to the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Amplified Bible
Moses entered the midst of the cloud and went up the mountain; and he was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Christian Standard Bible
Moses entered the cloud as he went up the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Moses entered the cloud as he went up the mountain, and he remained on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights.

American Standard Version
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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Moshe entered within the cloud and he came up to the mountain and Moshe was in the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and went up to the mountain, and was there in the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses, entering into the midst of the cloud, went up into the mountain: and he was there forty days, and forty nights.

English Revised Version
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Moses entered the cloud as he went up the mountain. He stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights.

Good News Translation
Moses went on up the mountain into the cloud. There he stayed for forty days and nights.

International Standard Version
When Moses went up on the mountain, he went into the center of the cloud and was on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights.

JPS Tanakh 1917
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.

Literal Standard Version
and Moses goes into the midst of the cloud, and goes up to the mountain, and Moses is on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Majority Standard Bible
Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

New American Bible
But Moses entered into the midst of the cloud and went up on the mountain. He was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.

NET Bible
Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

New Revised Standard Version
Moses entered the cloud, and went up on the mountain. Moses was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.

New Heart English Bible
Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and ascended the mount: and Moses was on the mount forty days and forty nights.

World English Bible
Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Young's Literal Translation
and 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.

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Context
Moses on the Mountain
17And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites. 18Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Cross References
Exodus 25:1
Then the LORD said to Moses,

Exodus 32:1
Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, "Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!"

Exodus 34:28
So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant--the Ten Commandments.

Deuteronomy 9:9
When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

Deuteronomy 10:10
I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.

1 Kings 19:8
So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

1 Kings 19:11
Then the LORD said, "Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD. Behold, the LORD is about to pass by." And a great and mighty wind tore into the mountains and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.


Treasury of Scripture

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

went into

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 9:29,33
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…

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.

forty days

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 9:9,18,25
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.

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Exodus 24
1. Moses is called up into the mountain
3. The people promise obedience
4. Moses builds an altar, and twelve pillars.
6. He sprinkles the blood of the covenant
9. The glory of God appears
14. Aaron and Hur have the charge of the people
15. Moses goes into the mountain, where he continues forty days and forty nights.














(18) Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.--During the whole of this time he took no food (Deuteronomy 9:9). Comp. The fast of Elijah (1Kings 19:8), and that of our blessed Lord (Matthew 3:2). Modern imitations are in all probability impostures.

Verse 18. - And Moses went into the midst of the cloud. Quitting Joshua, Moses at last, in obedience to the call out of the midst of the cloud, entered within its shadow and disappeared from human vision In this abnormal condition, alone with God, he continued for thirty-four days, making, together with the six days before he entered the cloud, the forty days and forty nights of the text before us. It is noted in Deuteronomy 9:9, that during the whole of this time he was without food. Compare Elijah's fast (1 Kings 19:8), and our blessed Lord's (Matthew 3:2).



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Moses
מֹשֶׁ֛ה (mō·šeh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4872: Moses -- a great Israelite leader, prophet and lawgiver

entered
וַיָּבֹ֥א (way·yā·ḇō)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

the cloud
הֶעָנָ֖ן (he·‘ā·nān)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6051: A cloud, the nimbus, thunder-cloud

as he went up
וַיַּ֣עַל (way·ya·‘al)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively

on
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

the mountain,
הָהָ֑ר (hā·hār)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country

and he
מֹשֶׁה֙ (mō·šeh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4872: Moses -- a great Israelite leader, prophet and lawgiver

remained
וַיְהִ֤י (way·hî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

on the mountain
בָּהָ֔ר (bā·hār)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country

forty
אַרְבָּעִ֣ים (’ar·bā·‘îm)
Number - common plural
Strong's 705: Forty

days
י֔וֹם (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

and forty
וְאַרְבָּעִ֖ים (wə·’ar·bā·‘îm)
Conjunctive waw | Number - common plural
Strong's 705: Forty

nights.
לָֽיְלָה׃ (lā·yə·lāh)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3915: A twist, night, adversity


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