Exodus 34:8 KJV — MannaFest

Exodus 34:8

And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

KJV

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WEB

Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped.

YLT

And Moses hasteth, and boweth to the earth, and doth obeisance,

DBT

And Moses made haste, and bowed his head to the earth and worshipped,

ASV

And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

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Exodus — Deliverance, covenant, presence. A slave-people redeemed from Egypt, brought to Sinai, and given a tabernacle so that God might dwell among them.

Author: Moses — traditional attribution; internal narrator identifies Moses as recorder (17:14, 24:4, 34:27)
Date: 15th or 13th century BC, depending on chronology of the exodus

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Exodus 4:31
And the people believed: and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
Genesis 17:3
And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
2 Chronicles 20:18
And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the Lord, worshipping the Lord.
Numbers 22:31
Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.
Haggai 2:5
According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.

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(2.) His joy in this discovery which God had made of himself, and his thankfulness for it. We have reason gratefully to acknowledge God's goodness to us, not only in the real instances of it, but in the declarations he has made of it by his word; not only that he is, and will be, gracious to us, but that he is pleased to let us know it.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Moses bowed . . . and worshipped--In the East, people bow the head to royalty, and are silent when it passes by, while in the West, they take off their hats and shout.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

And Moses made haste, and bowed his head - Thus he expressed his humble reverence and adoration of God's glory, together with his joy in this discovery God had made of himself, and his thankfulness for it.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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