Be ready in the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai to present yourself before Me on the mountaintop.
Parallel translations
- WEB Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.
- KJV And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
- NKJV So be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me there on the top of the mountain.
- NASB So be ready by morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to Me on the top of the mountain.
- NLT Be ready in the morning to climb up Mount Sinai and present yourself to me on the top of the mountain.
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Quick answer
Moses is told to prepare and ascend Mount Sinai in the morning to meet God. The renewed covenant requires Moses to draw near again.
Overview
God summons Moses to a fresh encounter at the holy mountain. The careful preparation underscores the seriousness and solemnity of approaching God. The scene reestablishes the ordered, reverent mediation that idolatry had disrupted.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Exod 19:20The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the summit. So Moses went up,
- Deut 9:25So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
- Exod 19:11and be prepared by the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
- Exod 19:24And the LORD replied, “Go down and bring Aaron with you. But the priests and the people must not break through to come up to the LORD, or He will break out against them.”
- Exod 24:12Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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