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Exodus 40:35

in Exodus 40

Moses was unable to enter the Tent of Meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of meeting, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle.

KJV

And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

This verse in Exodus 40

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

With these the tabernacle was now filled, yet, as before the bush was not consumed, so now the curtains were not so much as singed by this fire; for to those that have received the anointing the terrible majesty of God is not destroying.

This site's exposition

Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting

on Exodus 40:34-35

At 33:18 Moses asked to see the glory and was shown His back. Here the glory fills a tent in the camp, and the man who entered the cloud at 24:18 cannot enter it.

This site's exposition

Moses was unable to enter the Tent of Meeting

Matthew Henry compares the tent to the burning bush, filled with the glory while its curtains stood unharmed by the fire. Albert Barnes describes the glory as a light within and a cloud on the outside. Leviticus 1:1 finds the LORD calling to Moses from this tent.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He was able to enter into the holy place not made with hands ( Heb. ix. 24 ); nay, he is himself the true tabernacle, filled with the glory of God ( John i. 14 ), even with the divine grace and truth prefigured by this fire and light.
And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation,....

The words behind it

16 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.

  • וְלֹא־and not

    velo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • יָכֹ֣לhe was able

    yakholH3201 →194 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֗הMoses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • לָבוֹא֙to go

    lavo'H935 →2568 times

  • אֶל־into

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • אֹ֣הֶל[the] tent of

    ʾohelH168 →345 times

  • מוֹעֵ֔דmeeting

    moedH4150 →223 times

  • כִּֽי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • שָׁכַ֥ןit had settled down

    shakhanH7931 →129 times

  • עָלָ֖יוover it

    ʾalavH5921 →5755 times

  • הֶעָנָ֑ןthe cloud

    heananH6051 →87 times

  • וּכְב֣וֹדand [the] glory of

    ukhevodH3519 →200 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • מָלֵ֖אit had filled

    male'H4390 →249 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַמִּשְׁכָּֽן׃the tabernacle

    hamishkanH4908 →139 times

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

    Isaiah 6:4

    At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke.

    it leads to

    • Revelation 15:8

      And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power; and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Leviticus 16:2

    And the LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 8:10–12

      And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, the cloud filled the house of the LORD

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Exodus 30:10

      Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on the horns of the altar. Throughout your generations he shall make atonement on it annually with the blood of the sin offering of atonement. The altar…

    • Hebrews 10:19–20

      Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,

    • Hebrews 9:25

      Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.

    • Hebrews 9:7–8

      But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.

  • Through

    1 Kings 8:11

    so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 44:4

      Then the man brought me to the front of the temple by way of the north gate. I looked and saw the glory of the LORD filling His temple, and I fell facedown.

    • Ezekiel 43:4–5

      and the glory of the LORD entered the temple through the gate facing east.

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.