Exodus 24:13
So Moses/I told the elders, “Stay here with the other people until we return! Do not forget that Aaron and Hur will be with you. So if anyone has a dispute while I am gone, he can go to those two men.” Then Moses/I went with his/my servant Joshua part of the way up the mountain that was dedicated to God.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 17:9Moses/I said to Joshua, who was one of our army/Israeli leaders, “Choose some men to go out and fight against the Amalek people-group tomorrow. I will stand on the top of the hill, holding the stick that God told me to carry.”
Exodus 32:17Joshua heard the very loud noise of the people shouting. So when he and I got near the camp, Joshua said, “There is a noise in the camp that sounds like the noise of a battle!”
Numbers 11:28Joshua, who had helped Moses/me since he was a young man, said, “Sir, tell them to stop doing that!”
1 Chronicles 7:27Elishama’s son was Nun. Nun’s son was Joshua, the man who led the Israelis after Moses died.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 24:13-18
12 And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them. 13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God. 14 And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them. 15 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud… Read the whole commentary →