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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.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Original language & word study

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיָּבֹ֥אvai.ya.Vo'and he wentH935 →
מֹשֶׁ֛הmo.ShehMosesH4872 →
בְּת֥וֹךְbe.Tokhin [the] midst ofH8432 →
הֶעָנָ֖ןhe.'a.Nanthe cloudH6051 →
וַיַּ֣עַלvai.Ya.'aland he went upH5927 →
אֶל־'el-toH413 →
הָהָ֑רha.Harthe mountainH2022 →
וַיְהִ֤יvay.Hiand he wasH1961 →
מֹשֶׁה֙mo.ShehMosesH4872 →
בָּהָ֔רba.Haron the mountainH2022 →
אַרְבָּעִ֣ים'ar.ba.'ImfortyH705 →
י֔וֹםYomday[s]H3117 →
וְאַרְבָּעִ֖יםve.'ar.ba.'Imand fortyH705 →
לָֽיְלָה׃ פLa.ye.lahnight[s]H3915 →

The walk

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Exodus 32:1Now 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!”Deuteronomy 9:9When 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 10:10I 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.Exodus 34:28So 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.1 Kings 19:11Then 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.Deuteronomy 9:18Then 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 and provoking Him to anger.Deuteronomy 9:25So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.Exodus 24:2Moses alone shall approach the LORD, but the others must not come near. And the people may not go up with him.”Exodus 32:15Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.Exodus 24:12Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”Luke 4:2where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry.Mark 1:13and He was there for forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and the angels ministered to Him.Matthew 4:2After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.Exodus 9:33Then 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 9:29Moses 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 19:20The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the summit. So Moses went up,Exodus 24:17And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.1 Kings 19:8So 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.

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About Exodus

The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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