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Exodus 4:27

in Exodus 4

Meanwhile, the LORD had said to Aaron, “Go and meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And Jehovah said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mountain of God, and kissed him.

KJV

And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.

This verse in Exodus 4

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Aaron met him in the mount of God, and kissed him--After a separation of forty years, their meeting would be mutually happy. Similar are the salutations of Arab friends when they meet in the desert still; conspicuous is the kiss on each side of the head.

This site's exposition

Go into the wilderness to meet Moses

on Exodus 4:27-28

God had been speaking to Aaron as well, and the two lines of instruction meet in the mount of God, which is the Horeb of Exodus 3:1 where the bush burned. The reunion of two brothers parted forty years is given one word, that he kissed him. Moses hands over everything he was given, the words and the signs together, so Aaron goes in to the elders knowing what Moses knows.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And the Lord said unto Aaron,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

God sent Aaron to meet him, and directed him where to find him, in the wilderness that lay towards Midian. Note, The providence of God is to be acknowledged in the comfortable meeting of relations and friends.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The Lord said to Aaron - See Exo 4:14. By some secret but powerful movement on Aaron’s mind, or by some voice or angelic ministry, he was now directed to go and meet his brother Moses; and so correctly was the information given to both, that they arrived at the same time on the sacred mountain.

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַיֹּ֤אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH5595305 times

  • יְהוָה֙Yahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • אֶֽל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • אַהֲרֹ֔ןAaron

    ʾaharonH175347 times

  • לֵ֛ךְgo

    lekhH19801546 times

  • לִקְרַ֥אתto meet

    likratH7122139 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֖הMoses

    moshehH4872765 times

  • הַמִּדְבָּ֑רָהthe wilderness towards

    hamidbarahH4057270 times

  • וַיֵּ֗לֶךְand he went

    vaiyelekhH19801546 times

  • וַֽיִּפְגְּשֵׁ֛הוּand he met him

    vaiyifgeshehuH6298

  • בְּהַ֥רat [the] mountain of

    beharH2022546 times

  • הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים<the> God

    haelohimH4302601 times

  • וַיִּשַּׁק־and he kissed

    vaiyishak-H5401

  • לֽוֹ׃<to> <the> him

    lo

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each 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 3:1

    Meanwhile, 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…

    • Numbers 10:29

      Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us,…

  • Through

    Exodus 20:18

    When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sounding of the ram’s horn, and the mountain enveloped in smoke, they trembled and stood at a distance.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 19:16–18

      On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the…

  • Through

    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.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 9:18

      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…

    • 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.

    • Exodus 3:1

      Meanwhile, 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.

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About Exodus

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.