The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:
Parallel translations
- WEB “Yahweh our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, ‘You have lived long enough at this mountain.
- BSB The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: “You have stayed at this mountain long enough.
- NKJV “The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain.
- NASB “The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain.
- NLT “When we were at Mount Sinai, the Lord our God said to us, ‘You have stayed at this mountain long enough.
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Quick answer
Moses recalls God's word at Horeb that Israel had stayed long enough at the mountain. It was time to move forward toward the inheritance God promised.
Overview
God's command to leave Horeb shows that even good experiences of His presence are meant to lead forward into obedience and mission, not to be clung to. Israel could not remain forever at Sinai; the covenant pointed toward the land. Spiritually, this reminds believers that grace received is meant to move us onward in faith and obedience, pressing toward the inheritance secured for us in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Exod 3:1Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
- Num 10:11–13And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.
- Deut 5:2The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
- Exod 17:6Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
- Exod 19:1–2In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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