Exodus 34:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me on the top of the mount.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וֶהְיֵ֥ה נָכ֖וֹן לַבֹּ֑קֶר וְעָלִ֤יתָ בַבֹּ֙קֶר֙ אֶל־הַ֣ר סִינַ֔י וְנִצַּבְתָּ֥ לִ֛י שָׁ֖ם עַל־רֹ֥אשׁ הָהָֽר׃

Transliteration

And wehyēh nāḵôn for the bōqer, and you shall wəʿālîtā in the bōqer to har Sînay, and you shall wəniṣṣaḇtā for me there on rōʾš hāhār.

Grammar Details

*wehyēh*: waw conjunctive + imperative masculine singular - and be
*nāḵôn*: adjective masculine singular - ready/prepared
*bōqer*: masculine singular noun - morning/dawn
*wəʿālîtā*: waw consecutive + perfect 2nd masculine singular - and you shall go up
*har*: construct state masculine singular noun - mountain of
*Sînay*: proper noun - Sinai
*wəniṣṣaḇtā*: waw consecutive + perfect 2nd masculine singular - and you shall stand/present yourself
*rōʾš*: masculine singular construct - head/top of
*hāhār*: definite article + masculine singular noun - the mountain

Word Meanings

*nāḵôn*: ready/prepared/established
*bōqer*: morning/dawn/daybreak
*rōʾš*: head/top/summit

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Referenced Verses

Exod 19:20 : 20 And Jehovah came down upon mount Sinai, to the top of the mount: and Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
Exod 19:24 : 24 And Jehovah said unto him, Go, get thee down; and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto Jehovah, lest he break forth upon them.
Exod 24:12 : 12 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee the tables of stone, and the law and the commandment, which I have written, that thou mayest teach them.
Deut 9:25 : 25 So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Jehovah had said he would destroy you.
Exod 19:11 : 11 and be ready against the third day; for the third day Jehovah will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Exod 34:3-5
3 verses
84%
3And no man shall come up with thee; neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
4And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as Jehovah had commanded him, and took in his hand two tables of stone.
5And Jehovah descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah.
Exod 19:9-12
4 verses
83%
9And Jehovah said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and may also believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto Jehovah.
10And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their garments,
11and be ready against the third day; for the third day Jehovah will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
12And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:
Exod 24:12-13
2 verses
82%
12And Jehovah said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee the tables of stone, and the law and the commandment, which I have written, that thou mayest teach them.
13And Moses rose up, and Joshua his minister: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
Exod 19:20
80%
20And Jehovah came down upon mount Sinai, to the top of the mount: and Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
Exod 34:1
79%
1And Jehovah said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon the tables the words that were on the first tables, which thou brakest.
Exod 19:2-3
2 verses
78%
2And when they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mount.
3And Moses went up unto God, and Jehovah called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:
Exod 19:15-17
3 verses
77%
15And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not near a woman.
16And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of a trumpet exceeding loud; and all the people that were in the camp trembled.
17And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
Deut 10:1
77%
1At that time Jehovah said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
Exod 19:23-24
2 verses
77%
23And Moses said unto Jehovah, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou didst charge us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
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Num 14:40
76%
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Lev 25:1
76%
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Exod 24:18
76%
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Exod 24:4
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Lev 27:34
75%
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Exod 24:15-16
2 verses
75%
15And Moses went up into the mount, and the cloud covered the mount.
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Exod 34:27
75%
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Exod 24:1-2
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75%
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Num 16:16
75%
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Deut 9:10-11
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74%
10And Jehovah delivered unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them [was written] according to all the words, which Jehovah spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
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Exod 33:21
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Exod 34:32
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Lev 19:1
74%
1And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Exod 14:1
73%
1And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Exod 25:1
73%
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Exod 3:12
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Lev 9:5-6
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73%
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Exod 32:30
73%
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Num 3:14
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Num 1:1
73%
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Exod 8:20
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Deut 9:15
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