Exodus 24:13
in Exodus 24So Moses set out with Joshua his attendant and went up on the mountain of God.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And Moses rose up, and Joshua his minister: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
KJV
And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
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This verse in Exodus 24
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here
on Exodus 24:12-13
God calls Moses higher, and the tablets carry commandments “I have written,” so this writing is God’s own where verse 4 was Moses’ hand. Joshua goes up as “his attendant,” first seen at 17:9 choosing men to fight Amalek.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua,.... In order to go up higher on the mount. Joshua, and he only, was to go up higher with him, though not to the top of the mount, at least not into the cloud upon it, as Moses did.
Joshua was a type of Christ, and (as the learned bishop Pearson well observes) Moses takes him with him into the mount, because without Jesus, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, there is no looking into the secrets of heaven, nor approaching the glorious presence of God.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
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.
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:
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
‘COME UP TO ME INTO THE MOUNTAIN.’ This is the same command which He had said to him on the preceeding day [i.e., on the sixth of Sivan], Come up unto the Eternal; 551 Verse. and Moses alone shall come near unto the Eternal, 552 Verse.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
‘TARRY YE HERE FOR US.’ The meaning of this is that when Moses parted from them with his minister, he commanded them that they should tarry there.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיָּ֣קָם | vaiyakom | and he arose | H6965 → | 628 times |
| מֹשֶׁ֔ה | mosheh | Moses | H4872 → | 765 times |
| וִיהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ | vihoshua' | and Joshua | H3091 → | 218 times |
| מְשָׁרְת֑וֹ | meshareto | servant his | H8334 → | 97 times |
| וַיַּ֥עַל | vaiyaal | and he went up | H5927 → | 890 times |
| מֹשֶׁ֖ה | mosheh | Moses | H4872 → | 765 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| הַ֥ר | har | [the] mountain of | H2022 → | 546 times |
| הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃ | haelohim | <the> God | H430 → | 2601 times |
וַיָּ֣קָםand he arose
vaiyakomH6965 →628 times
מֹשֶׁ֔הMoses
moshehH4872 →765 times
וִיהוֹשֻׁ֖עַand Joshua
vihoshua'H3091 →218 times
מְשָׁרְת֑וֹservant his
mesharetoH8334 →97 times
וַיַּ֥עַלand he went up
vaiyaalH5927 →890 times
מֹשֶׁ֖הMoses
moshehH4872 →765 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
הַ֥ר[the] mountain of
harH2022 →546 times
הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃<the> God
haelohimH430 →2601 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Exodus 33:11Thus the LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young assistant Joshua son of Nun would not…
it leads to
- Numbers 12:8
I speak with him face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you unafraid to speak against My servant Moses?”
- Deuteronomy 34:10
Since that time, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face—
- Exodus 33:9
As Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and remain at the entrance, and the LORD would speak with Moses.
- Deuteronomy 5:4
The LORD spoke with you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.
- Genesis 32:30
So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
- Numbers 12:8
Through
Exodus 3:1Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
it leads to
- 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.
- Psalms 78:70–72
He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
- Exodus 17:6
Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in…
- 1 Kings 19:8
Where this verse is studied
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Who and where
2 names in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.