Exodus 24:18 “Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained…”

Exodus 24:18

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

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.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And Moses entred into the middes of the cloude, and went vp to the mountaine: and Moses was in the mount fourtie dayes and fourty nightes.

Darby Translation

And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and ascended 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.

Bible in Basic English

And Moses went up the mountain, into the cloud, and was there for forty days and forty nights.

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Cross references

“went into”

Exodus 24:17 Exodus 9:29 Exodus 9:33 Exodus 19:20 Proverbs 28:1

Exodus 24:17 · BSB

And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.

Exodus 9:29 · BSB

Moses said to him, “When I have left the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.

Exodus 9:33 · BSB

Then Moses departed from Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD. The thunder and hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the land.

Exodus 19:20 · BSB

The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the summit. So Moses went up,

Proverbs 28:1 · BSB

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

“forty days”

Deuteronomy 9:9 Exodus 34:28 Deuteronomy 10:10 Deuteronomy 9:18 Deuteronomy 9:25 1 Kings 19:8

Deuteronomy 9:9 · BSB

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.

Exodus 34:28 · BSB

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 10:10 · BSB

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.

Deuteronomy 9:18 · BSB

Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD…

Deuteronomy 9:25 · BSB

So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

1 Kings 19:8 · BSB

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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

17And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.

Read Exodus 24