Exodus 24:9

24:9 Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up, ¹ 

Exodus 24:15

24:15 Moses went up the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

Exodus 24:13

24:13 So Moses set out ²  with ³  Joshua his attendant, and Moses went up the mountain of God.

Exodus 40:25

40:25 Then he set up the lamps before the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 19:18

19:18 Now Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a great furnace, ⁴  and the whole mountain shook ⁵  violently.

Exodus 19:20

19:20 The Lord came down on Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain, and the Lord summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

Exodus 24:18

24:18 Moses went into the cloud when he went up ⁶  the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights. ⁷ 

Exodus 10:12

10:12 The Lord said to Moses, “Extend your hand over the land of Egypt for ⁸  the locusts, that they may come up over the land of Egypt and eat everything that grows ⁹  in the ground, everything that the hail has left.”

Exodus 10:14

10:14 The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and settled down in all the territory ¹⁰  of Egypt. It was very severe; ¹¹  there had been no locusts like them before, nor will there be such ever again. ¹² 

Exodus 34:4

34:4 So Moses ¹³  cut out two tablets of stone like the first; ¹⁴  early in the morning he went up ¹⁵  to Mount Sinai, just as the Lord had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

Exodus 40:29

40:29 He also put the altar for the burnt offering by the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

¹ tn The verse begins with “and Moses went up, and Aaron….” This verse may supply the sequel to vv. 1-2. At any rate, God was now accepting them into his presence.

² tn Heb “and he arose” meaning “started to go.”

³ tn Heb “and.”

³ sn The image is that of a large kiln, as in Gen 19:28.

⁴ tn This is the same word translated “trembled” above (v. 16).

⁴ tn The verb is a preterite with vav (ו) consecutive; here, the second clause, is subordinated to the first preterite, because it seems that the entering into the cloud is the dominant point in this section of the chapter.

⁵ sn B. Jacob (Exodus, 750) offers this description of some of the mystery involved in Moses’ ascending into the cloud: Moses ascended into the presence of God, but remained on earth. He did not rise to heaven – the ground remained firmly under his feet. But he clearly was brought into God’s presence; he was like a heavenly servant before God’s throne, like the angels, and he consumed neither bread nor water. The purpose of his being there was to become familiar with all God’s demands and purposes. He would receive the tablets of stone and all the instructions for the tabernacle that was to be built (beginning in chap. 25). He would not descend until the sin of the golden calf.

⁵ tn The preposition בְּ (bet) is unexpected here. BDB 91 s.v. (the note at the end of the entry) says that in this case it can only be read as “with the locusts,” meaning that the locusts were thought to be implicit in Moses’ lifting up of his hand. However, BDB prefers to change the preposition to לְ (lamed).

⁶ tn The noun עֵשֶּׂב (’esev) normally would indicate cultivated grains, but in this context seems to indicate plants in general.

⁶ tn Heb “border.”

⁷ tn This is an interpretive translation. The clause simply has כָּבֵד מְאֹד (kaved mÿ’od), the stative verb with the adverb – “it was very heavy.” The description prepares for the following statement about the uniqueness of this locust infestation.

⁸ tn Heb “after them.”

⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent has been specified here and the name “Moses,” which occurs later in this verse, has been replaced with the pronoun (“he”), both for stylistic reasons.

⁸ sn Deuteronomy says that Moses was also to make an ark of acacia wood before the tablets, apparently to put the tablets in until the sanctuary was built. But this ark may not have been the ark built later; or, it might be the wood box, but Bezalel still had to do all the golden work with it.

⁹ tn The line reads “and Moses got up early in the morning and went up.” These verbs likely form a verbal hendiadys, the first one with its prepositional phrase serving in an adverbial sense.