Exodus 34:5 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Exodus 34:5

3 And no man shall ^acome up with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain; let neither flocks nor herds feed before that mountain.”

4 So he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. Then Moses rose early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him; and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

5 Now the Lord descended in the ^acloud and stood with him there, and ^bproclaimed the name of the Lord.

6 And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord ^aGod, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in ^bgoodness and ^ctruth,

7 ^akeeping mercy for thousands, ^bforgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, ^cby no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

8 So Moses made haste and ^abowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.

9 Then he said, “If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, ^alet my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a ^bstiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as ^cYour inheritance.”

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10 And He said: “Behold, ^aI make a covenant. Before all your people I will ^bdo marvels such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord. For it is ^can awesome thing that I will do with you.

11 ^aObserve what I command you this day. Behold, ^bI am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

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Exodus 34:5

the Lord descended in the cloud—After graciously hovering over the tabernacle, it seems to have resumed its usual position on the summit of the mount. It was the shadow of God manifest to the outward senses; and, at the same time, of God manifest in the flesh. The emblem of a cloud seems to have been chosen to signify that, although He was pleased to make known much about himself, there was more veiled from mortal view. It was to check presumption and engender awe and give a humble sense of human attainments in divine knowledge, as now man sees, but darkly.

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