Exodus 33:10

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 33:10 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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All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And all of the people saw the pillar of cloud standing the entrance of the tent, and all of the people would get up and bow down, each the entrance of his tent.

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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, they would stand up and worship, each one at the entrance to his own tent.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, they would stand up and worship, each one at the entrance to his own tent.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man at his tent door.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man at his tent door.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Nowe when all the people saw the cloudie pillar stand at the Tabernacle doore, all the people rose vp, and worshipped euery man in his tent doore.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And all saw that the pillar of the cloud stood at the door of the tabernacle. And they stood, and worshipped at the doors of their tents.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and all the people have seen the pillar of the cloud standing at the opening of the tent, and all the people have risen and bowed themselves, each at the opening of his tent.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and all the people have seen the pillar of the cloud standing at the opening of the tent, and all the people have risen and bowed themselves, each at the opening of his tent.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Whenever all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the entrance to the tent, they would get up and worship, every man at his own tent entrance.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And all of the people saw the pillar of cloud standing the entrance of the tent, and all of the people would get up and bow down, each the entrance of his tent.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent; and all the people rose and worshipped, every man at the entrance of his tent.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose and worshiped, every man in his tent-door.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    When the people saw the cloud column standing in the doorway to the Tent, everyone would stand up and bow in worship at the entrance of their tents.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And all the people saw the cloud at the door of the Tent, and they went down on their faces, everyone at the door of his tent.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, all the people rose up and worshipped, every man at his tent door.

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הֶֽעָנָ֔ן
ʻânân
H6051
“the · cloud”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
Part of Speech
Particle + Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H6049

TWOT: 1655a

cloud, cloudy, cloud-mass - cloud-mass (of theophanic cloud) - cloud
  1. וְרָאָ֤ה râʼâh H7200 “and · to see” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. כָל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  3. הָעָם֙ ʻam H5971 “the · people” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  4. אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  5. עַמּ֣וּד ʻammûwd H5982 “pillar of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  6. עֹמֵ֖ד ʻâmad H5975 “standing” Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  7. פֶּ֣תַח pethach H6607 “doorway of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  8. הָאֹ֑הֶל ʼôhel H168 “the · tent” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  9. וְקָ֤ם qûwm H6965 “and · to rise” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  10. כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  11. הָעָם֙ ʻam H5971 “the · people” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  12. וְהִֽשְׁתַּחֲוּ֔וּ shâchâh H7812 “and · to bow down” Conjunction + Verb, Hishtaphel, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural
  13. אִ֖ישׁ ʼîysh H376 “man” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  14. פֶּ֥תַח pethach H6607 “doorway of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  15. אָהֳלֽוֹ ʼôhel H168 “tent · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

16
words
12
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Grammatical profile

  • 4 verbs
  • 11 nouns
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • וְרָאָ֤ה Qal · Sequential Perfect
  • עֹמֵ֖ד Qal · Participle Active
  • וְקָ֤ם Qal · Sequential Perfect
  • וְהִֽשְׁתַּחֲוּ֔וּ Hishtaphel · Sequential Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • כָל all H3605 ×2
  • הָעָם֙ people H5971 ×2
  • פֶּ֣תַח doorway H6607 ×2
  • הָאֹ֑הֶל tent H168 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 28 words from the Hebrew and 32 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 16 Hebrew tokens and 28 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.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Exodus 33:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Exodus 4:31 The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
  • 1 Kings 8:14 The king turned his face about, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood.
  • 1 Kings 8:22 Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;
  • Luke 18:13 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Exodus 33:10 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְרָאָ֤ה כָל הָעָם֙ אֶת עַמּ֣וּד הֶֽעָנָ֔ן עֹמֵ֖ד פֶּ֣תַח הָאֹ֑הֶל וְקָ֤ם כָּל הָעָם֙ וְהִֽשְׁתַּחֲוּ֔וּ אִ֖ישׁ פֶּ֥תַח אָהֳלֽוֹ

All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 33:10 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁράω πᾶς ὁ λαός ὁ στῦλος ὁ νεφέλη ἵστημι ἐπί ὁ θύρα ὁ σκηνή καί ἵστημι πᾶς ὁ λαός προςκυνέω ἕκαστος ἀπό ὁ θύρα ὁ σκηνή αὐτός

And all the people saw the pillar of the cloud standing by the door of the tabernacle, and all the people stood and worshipped every one at the door of his tent.

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)
    וַחֲזָן כָּל עַמָא יָת עַמוּדָא דַעֲנָנָא קָאֵם בִּתְרַע מַשְׁכְּנָא וְקַיְמִין כָּל עַמָא וְסָגְדִין גְבַר בִּתְרַע מַשְׁכְּנֵהּ:

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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)
    וְחָמַן כָּל עַמָּא יַת עַמּוּדָא דַעֲנָנָא קָאִי בִּתְרַע מַשְׁכְּנָא וּמִן יַד קַיְימִין כָּל עַמָּא וְסַגְדִין כָּל קְבֵל מַשְׁכְּנָא כִּדְקַיְימִין גְּבַר בִּתְרַע מַשְׁכְּנֵיהּ

    And all the people beheld the column of the Cloud standing at the door of the tabernacle, and the whole people at once rose up and worshipped towards the tabernacle, standing every man at the door of his tent.

    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 33:10 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.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Exo 33:10 And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand [at] the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man [in] his tent door.

Ver. 10. Rose up and worshipped.] Though obnoxious, they would not despair of mercy. See 1Sa 12:20-22.

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.

John Gill's Exposition

And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door,.... They being every man at his tent door; and this must be a pleasing sight to them, and give them some hope that God would be merciful to them, forgive their sin, and not depart from them:

and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door; not Moses, nor the cloudy pillar, but the Lord in it; it was not a civil bow they made to Moses, and in respect to him, for he was gone into the tabernacle out of sight, but a religious adoration of the Lord in the pillar of cloud.

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

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The tabernacle door - The entrance of the tent.

The people by their act of worship gave another proof of their penitence.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

And worshipped. This the Samaritan copy omits. The people bowed towards Moses and the angel. (Calmet)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

The Pulpit Commentary

And all the people saw and all the people rose up. This is a literal translation; but it would make the sense clearer to the ordinary reader if the passage were rendered when all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the door of the tent, then all the people rose up," etc. Worshipped. Literally, "bowed themselves down an obeisance," in token that they recognised the presence of God.

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

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And when they saw the cloudy pillar, that symbol of God's presence, give Moses the meeting, they all worshipped every man at his tent door - Thereby they signified, Their humble adoration of the divine majesty. Their thankfulness to God, that he was pleased to shew them this token for good, for if he had been pleased to kill them he would not have shewed them such things as these. And their hearty concurrence with Moses as their advocate, in every thing he should promise for them.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

Yahweh would speak to Moses face to face

Speaking directly rather than through dreams and visions, is spoken of as if Moses and God saw each other's faces while they spoke. AT: "Yahweh would speak directly to Moses" (See: Metaphor)

young man

old enough to be a soldier (Exodus 17:9-10), but much younger than Moses

translationWords

people group

column

tent

worship

Yahweh

Moses

face

servant

Joshua

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

והשתחוו AND THEY PROSTRATED THEMSELVES to the Shechinah.

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

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Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 16 words (12 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. What does “cloud” (ʻânân) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Exodus 4:31, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “all” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  5. «וְרָאָ֤ה» is a Qal Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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