Exodus 24:10
And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it
were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven
in his clearness.
a. NLT: There they saw the God of
Israel. Under his feet there seemed to be a surface of brilliant blue lapis
lazuli, as clear as the sky itself.
b. NIV: and saw the God of Israel.
Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as bright
blue as the sky.
c. YLT: and they see the God of
Israel, and under His feet is as the white work of the
sapphire, and as the substance of the heavens for purity;
d. Amplified Bible: and they saw
[a manifestation of] the God of Israel; and under His feet there appeared to be
a pavement of sapphire, just as clear as the sky itself.
e. Septuagint: And they saw the
place where the God of Israel stood; and under his feet was as it were a work
of sapphire slabs, and as it were the appearance of the firmament of heaven in
its purity.
f. Stone Chumash: They saw the God
of Israel, and under His feet was the likeness of sapphire brickwork, and it
was like the essence of the heaven of purity.
1. “And they saw the
God of Israel…”
a. And they saw [7200 * ra'ah]
[Strong: a primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous
applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and
causative):--advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider,
discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X
joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up,
upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have)
respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight
of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.]
b. the God [430 * 'elohiym]
[Strong: plural of 433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used
(in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God;
occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a
superlative:--angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great,
judges, X mighty.]
c. of Israel [3478 * Yisra'el]
[Strong: from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a
symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.]
1). There are different schools of
thought for this verse. Dake teaches that they saw God, but more than a few
other commentators cite verses such as Deuteronomy 4:12, 15 to teach that they
did not “see” God. I believe they did see God and I think the Pulpit Commentary
below nails it.
a). Pulpit Commentary: Verse 10. - They
saw the God of Israel. These words can scarcely mean less than that they saw
with their bodily eyes some appearance of the Divine being who had summoned
them to his presence for the purpose. Moses, we know, saw a "similitude of
God" (Numbers 12:8). Isaiah "saw the Lord sitting upon his throne
"(Isaiah 6:1). Ezekiel saw upon the throne "the appearance of a
man" (Ezekiel 1:26). It does not follow from Deuteronomy 4:12, 15,
that the elders saw no similitude, since in that passage Moses
is speaking, not to the elders, but to the people, and referring, not to what
occurred at the sacrificial feast after the ratification of the covenant, but
to the scene at the giving of the Ten Commandments previously (Exodus 20:1-18).
What the form was which the elders saw, we are not told; but as it had
"feet," it was probably a human form. It may have been hazy,
indefinite, "too dazzling bright for mortal eye" to rest upon. But it
was a true "vision of God" - and, as Keil says, "a foretaste of
the blessedness of the sight of God in eternity."
2. “…and there
was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone…”
a. under his feet [7272 * regel]
[Strong: from 7270; a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step;
by euphem. the pudenda:--X be able to endure, X according as, X after, X
coming, X follow, ((broken-))foot((-ed, -stool)), X great toe, X haunt, X
journey, leg, + piss, + possession, time.]
b. a paved work [3840 * libnah]
[Strong: from 3835; properly, whiteness, i.e. (by implication)
transparency:--paved.]
c. work [4639 * ma`aseh] [Strong: from 6213;
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by
implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property:--act,
art, + bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making,
occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, X well, ((handy-, needle-,
net-))work(ing, - manship), wrought.]
d. of a sapphire stone [5601 * cappiyr]
[Strong: from 5608; a gem (perhaps used for scratching other substances),
probably the sapphire:--sapphire.]
3. “…and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.”
a. as it were the body [6106 * `etsem]
[Strong: from 6105; a bone (as strong); by extension, the body;
figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame:--body, bone, X life,
(self-)same, strength, X very.]
b. of heaven [8064 * shamayim]
[Strong: dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}; from an unused root
meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the
visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the
celestial bodies revolve):--air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).]
c. in his clearness [2892 * tohar]
[Strong: from 2891; literally brightness; ceremonially
purification:--clearness, glory, purifying.]
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