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Exodus 40:34
Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — No speaker; this is narrative. Moses has just completed the tabernacle and courtyard (v.33), and the text moves immediately to the divine response.
The words — כָּסָה (khasah, "cover") and מָלֵא (male', "fill") are the two verbs; the first is external enclosure, the second is internal saturation.
The thread — The same pattern—glory filling a sacred space until no one can enter—recurs at the dedication of Solomon's temple (2 Chronicles 7:2) and in the eschatological temple of Revelation 15:8.
Why it lands — The verse is immediately followed by Moses being shut out (v.35); the reader is placed on the outside of the presence, not inside it.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
Cross-references
- Revelation 15:8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power; and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.
- Numbers 9:15 On the day that the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it and appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning.
- 2 Chronicles 7:2 The priests were unable to enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled it.
- Exodus 14:19 And the angel of God, who had gone before the camp of Israel, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from before them and stood behind them,
- Exodus 14:24 At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.
- Exodus 29:43 I will also meet with the Israelites there, and that place will be consecrated by My glory.
- Revelation 21:23 And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.
- Exodus 13:21 And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.
- Exodus 33:9 As Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and remain at the entrance, and the LORD would speak with Moses.
- Leviticus 16:2 And the LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.