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Exodus 24:15

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 24:15 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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Exodus 24:15 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/exodus/24/15.

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Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Moses went up to the mountain, and a cloud covered the mountain.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.

  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it,
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it,
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And Moses went up into the mount, and the cloud covered the mount.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And Moses went up into the mount, and the cloud covered the mount.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Then Moses went vp to the mount, and the cloude couered the mountaine,
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And when Moses was gone up, a cloud covered the mount.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And Moses goeth up unto the mount, and the cloud covereth the mount;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Moses goes up to the mountain, and the cloud covers the mountain;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    So Moses went up the mountain, and the cloud covered it.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Moses went up to the mountain, and a cloud covered the mountain.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And Moses went up upon the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    As Moses climbed up on the mountain, the cloud covered it.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And Moses went up into the mountain, and it was covered by the cloud.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And Moses went up into the mount, and the cloud covered the mount.

Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).

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7
distinct lemmas
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Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 4 nouns
  • 1 preposition
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • וַיַּ֥עַל Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • וַיְכַ֥ס Piel · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • הָהָ֑ר mountain H2022 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 15 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 8 Hebrew tokens and 14 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

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Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Exodus 24:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Exodus 19:9 Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever." Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.
  • Matthew 17:5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him."
  • Exodus 19:16 It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
  • 2 Chronicles 6:1 Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Exodus 24:15 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיַּ֥עַל מֹשֶׁ֖ה אֶל הָהָ֑ר וַיְכַ֥ס הֶעָנָ֖ן אֶת הָהָֽר

Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 24:15 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἀναβαίνω μωυσῆς καί ἰησοῦς εἰς ὁ ὄρος καί καλύπτω ὁ νεφέλη ὁ ὄρος

And Moses and Joshua went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וּסְלֵק משֶׁה לְטוּרָא וַחֲפָא עֲנָנָא יָת טוּרָא:

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    Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וּסְלֵיק משֶׁה לְטַוְורָא וַחֲפָא עֲנַן יְקָרָא יַת טַוְורָא

    And Mosheh went up into the mount, and the Cloud of Glory covered the mount.

    Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Exodus 24:15 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Exo 24:15 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.

Ver. 15. And Moses went up into the mount.] But he went not yet into the cloud, as Exo 24:18, till the seventh day, that he might, by degrees, be heavenlised, and edged with an earnest expectation of beholding God’s glory, and understanding his will. This was heaven beforehand.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(15) A cloud covered the mount.—Heb., the cloud—i.e., the cloud which had accompanied them from Succoth (Exo_13:21-22).

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

15b–18a (P). Moses is summoned up into the cloud on the top of the mount. The verses are P’s parallel to the narrative of JE in ch. 19.

15b. The sequel in P to Exo_19:1-2 a.

the cloud] the one which in P regularly enshrouds the ‘glory’ of Jehovah (cf. on the tabernacle, Exo_40:34 f.; and the note on Exo_13:21-22, at the end). Here it covers the mount, immediately upon Israel’s arrival at Sinai: contrast Exo_19:16.

16. the glory of Jehovah] see on Exo_16:10.

abode] or dwelt: a word often used in P of Jehovah, the cloud, or the glory. Cf. Exo_25:8, Exo_29:45-46, Exo_40:35; Num_5:3; Num_9:17-18; Num_9:22; Num_10:12; Num_35:34; and on Exo_25:8-9.

17. The brilliance of the ‘glory’ broke through the cloud in which it was enveloped, and became visible to the people.

devouring fire] i.e. blazing fire. Cf. Isa_29:6; Isa_30:27; Isa_30:30.

18b (E). The sequel (with the original connecting words omitted) follows in Exo_31:18 b. That Moses, according to E, was some time to the mount, is evident from the terms of Exo_32:1 : the ‘forty days’ are alluded to in Deu_9:9; Deu_9:11.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And Moses went up into the mount,.... To the top of it, and as it seems alone, leaving Joshua behind in a lower part of the mountain:

and a cloud covered the mount; in which cloud Jehovah was.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Pulpit Commentary

Moses went up into the mount. Having made the necessary arrangements for the government of the people during his absence, Moses ascended, in company with Joshua, to the upper part of the mountain, and there waited for some further summons. A cloud, or, rather, the cloud previously mentioned, (Exo_19:16) stood gathered upon the highest eminence, and marked the special presence of God there. Moses, though called up into the mount, would not intrude into this inner sanctuary, until specially bidden to enter it.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻânân (“cloud”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “cloud” (ʻânân) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. Exodus 19:9 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “mountain” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  5. The verb «וַיַּ֥עַל» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
  6. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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