Exodus 24:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

A cloud covered the mount six days A visible token of God's special presence there, for he so shows himself to us, as at the same time to conceal himself from us; he lets us know so much as to assure us of his power and grace, but intimates to us that we cannot find him out to perfection. During these six days Moses stayed waiting upon the mountain, for a call into the presence-chamber. And on the seventh day Probably the sabbath day; he called unto Moses Now the thick cloud opened in the sight of all Israel, and the glory of the Lord broke forth like devouring fire.

Exodus 24:16

16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.