Exodus 34:5

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.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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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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