Exodus 40:35

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 8:11 : 11 The priests could not carry out their duties because of the cloud; the LORD’s glory filled his temple.
  • 2 Chr 5:13-14 : 13 The trumpeters and musicians played together, praising and giving thanks to the LORD. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments, they loudly praised the LORD, singing:“Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!” Then a cloud filled the LORD’s temple. 14 The priests could not carry out their duties because of the cloud; the LORD’s splendor filled God’s temple.
  • 2 Chr 7:2 : 2 The priests were unable to enter the LORD’s temple because the LORD’s splendor filled the LORD’s temple.
  • Isa 6:4 : 4 The sound of their voices shook the door frames, and the temple was filled with smoke.
  • Rev 15:8 : 8 and the temple was filled with smoke from God’s glory and from his power. Thus no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues from the seven angels were completed.
  • Lev 16:2 : 2 and the LORD said to Moses:“Tell Aaron your brother that he must not enter at any time into the holy place inside the special curtain in front of the atonement lid that is on the ark so that he may not die, for I will appear in the cloud over the atonement lid.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 40:33-34
    2 verses
    90%

    33And he set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and the altar, and put the curtain at the gate of the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.

    34Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

  • Exod 33:7-10
    4 verses
    81%

    7The Presence of the Lord Moses took the tent and pitched it outside the camp, at a good distance from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. Anyone seeking the LORD would go out to the tent of meeting that was outside the camp.

    8And when Moses went out to the tent, all the people would get up and stand at the entrance to their tents and watch Moses until he entered the tent.

    9And whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the LORD would speak with Moses.

    10When all the people would see the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people, each one at the entrance of his own tent, would rise and worship.

  • Num 16:42-43
    2 verses
    80%

    42When the community assembled against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting– and the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.

    43Then Moses and Aaron stood before the tent of meeting.

  • 1 Kgs 8:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10Once the priests left the holy place, a cloud filled the LORD’s temple.

    11The priests could not carry out their duties because of the cloud; the LORD’s glory filled his temple.

  • Deut 31:15
    78%

    15The LORD appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud that stood above the door of the tent.

  • Num 20:6
    78%

    6Moses Responds So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting. They then threw themselves down with their faces to the ground, and the glory of the LORD appeared to them.

  • Exod 24:15-18
    4 verses
    78%

    15Moses went up the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

    16The glory of the LORD resided on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called to Moses from within the cloud.

    17Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in plain view of the people.

    18Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

  • 2 Chr 5:14
    78%

    14The priests could not carry out their duties because of the cloud; the LORD’s splendor filled God’s temple.

  • Exod 40:36-38
    3 verses
    78%

    36But when the cloud was lifted up from the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out on all their journeys;

    37but if the cloud was not lifted up, then they would not journey further until the day it was lifted up.

    38For the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, but fire would be on it at night, in plain view of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

  • 2 Chr 7:2
    77%

    2The priests were unable to enter the LORD’s temple because the LORD’s splendor filled the LORD’s temple.

  • Lev 9:23
    76%

    23Moses and Aaron then entered into the Meeting Tent. When they came out, they blessed the people, and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.

  • Exod 16:10
    76%

    10As Aaron spoke to the whole community of the Israelites and they looked toward the wilderness, there the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud,

  • Exod 40:19
    75%

    19Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Num 9:15-17
    3 verses
    75%

    15The Leading of the Lord On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle– the tent of the testimony– and from evening until morning there was a fiery appearance over the tabernacle.

    16This is the way it used to be continually: The cloud would cover it by day, and there was a fiery appearance by night.

    17Whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the Israelites would begin their journey; and in whatever place the cloud settled, there the Israelites would make camp.

  • Exod 40:21
    75%

    21And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, hung the protecting curtain, and shielded the ark of the testimony from view, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Num 10:34
    74%

    34And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day, when they traveled from the camp.

  • Num 14:10
    74%

    10However, the whole community threatened to stone them. But the glory of the LORD appeared to all the Israelites at the tent of meeting.

  • Lev 9:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5So they took what Moses had commanded to the front of the Meeting Tent and the whole congregation presented them and stood before the LORD.

    6Then Moses said,“This is what the LORD has commanded you to do so that the glory of the LORD may appear to you.”

  • Num 16:19
    73%

    19When Korah assembled the whole community against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting, then the glory of the LORD appeared to the whole community.

  • Exod 34:34-35
    2 verses
    73%

    34But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he came out. Then he would come out and tell the Israelites what he had been commanded.

    35When the Israelites would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone, Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with the LORD.

  • Ezek 10:4
    72%

    4Then the glory of the LORD arose from the cherub and moved to the threshold of the temple. The temple was filled with the cloud while the court was filled with the brightness of the LORD’s glory.

  • Num 9:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19When the cloud remained over the tabernacle many days, then the Israelites obeyed the instructions of the LORD and did not journey.

    20When the cloud remained over the tabernacle a number of days, they remained camped according to the LORD’s commandment, and according to the LORD’s commandment they would journey.

  • Exod 40:1
    72%

    1Setting Up the Sanctuary Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 29:43
    72%

    43There I will meet with the Israelites, and it will be set apart as holy by my glory.

  • Acts 7:31
    72%

    31When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached to investigate, there came the voice of the Lord,

  • Exod 24:2
    72%

    2Moses alone may come near the LORD, but the others must not come near, nor may the people go up with him.”

  • Num 4:21
    72%

    21The Service of the Gershonites Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Lev 10:7
    71%

    7but you must not go out from the entrance of the Meeting Tent lest you die, for the LORD’s anointing oil is on you.” So they acted according to the word of Moses.

  • Num 11:30
    71%

    30Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.

  • Exod 19:23
    71%

    23Moses said to the LORD,“The people are not able to come up to Mount Sinai, because you solemnly warned us,‘Set boundaries for the mountain and set it apart.’”

  • Num 9:22
    71%

    22Whether it was for two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud prolonged its stay over the tabernacle, the Israelites remained camped without traveling; but when it was taken up, they traveled on.

  • Lev 8:4
    71%

    4So Moses did just as the LORD commanded him, and the congregation assembled at the entrance of the Meeting Tent.