“Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Exodus 24 contains 18 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.