Exodus 24:10
8 So Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
9 Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,
and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
11 But God did not lay His hand on the nobles of Israel; they saw Him, and they ate and drank.
12 Then 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.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
- KJV
- And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
- WEB
- They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.
- ASV
- And they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and as it were the very heaven for clearness.
- DARBY
- and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were work of transparent sapphire, and as it were the form of heaven for clearness.
- BLB
- and they saw the God of Israel, and under His feet [was] like the work of a pavement of sapphire, and like the substance of the heavens for purity.
- ÅB
- Og de så Israels Gud; under hans føtter var det slik som et gulv av gjennomsiktig safirstein og som himmelen selv i klarhet.
- OTB
- De så Israels Gud, og under hans føtter var det noe som lignet et gulv av safir, klart som himmelen selv.
- B1930
- Og de så Israels Gud; under hans føtter var det likesom et gulv av gjennemsiktig safirsten og som himmelen selv i klarhet.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
John 1:18
No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
Read in contextEzekiel 10:1
And I looked and saw above the expanse, above the heads of the cherubim, the likeness of a throne of sapphire.
Read in contextExodus 33:23
Then I will take My hand away, and you will see My back; but My face must not be seen.”
Read in contextGenesis 32:30
So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
Read in contextExodus 33:20
But He added, “You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live.”
Read in contextEzekiel 1:26–28
Above the expanse over their heads was the likeness of a throne with the appearance of sapphire, and on the throne high above was a figure like that of a man.
Read in contextIsaiah 6:1–5
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple.
Read in contextRevelation 4:3
The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.
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