Exodus 34:8
New International Version
Moses bowed to the ground at once and worshiped.

New Living Translation
Moses immediately threw himself to the ground and worshiped.

English Standard Version
And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped.

Berean Standard Bible
Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped.

King James Bible
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

New King James Version
So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.

New American Standard Bible
And Moses hurried to bow low toward the ground and worship.

NASB 1995
Moses made haste to bow low toward the earth and worship.

NASB 1977
And Moses made haste to bow low toward the earth and worship.

Legacy Standard Bible
And Moses made haste to bow low toward the earth and worship.

Amplified Bible
Moses bowed to the earth immediately and worshiped [the Lord].

Christian Standard Bible
Moses immediately knelt low on the ground and worshiped.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped.

American Standard Version
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He keeps grace for thousands of generations and forgives sins and debts and he does not declare innocent to declare innocent, visiting the debts of the fathers on the children and on the children of children, on three and upon four generations.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Moses hasted, and bowed to the earth and worshipped;

Contemporary English Version
Moses quickly bowed down to the ground and worshiped the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses making haste, bowed down prostrate unto the earth, and adoring,

English Revised Version
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Immediately, Moses knelt, bowing with his face touching the ground.

Good News Translation
Moses quickly bowed down to the ground and worshiped.

International Standard Version
Moses quickly bowed to the ground and prostrated himself in worship.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

Literal Standard Version
And Moses hurries, and bows to the earth, and pays respect,

Majority Standard Bible
Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped.

New American Bible
Moses at once knelt and bowed down to the ground.

NET Bible
Moses quickly bowed to the ground and worshiped

New Revised Standard Version
And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.

New Heart English Bible
Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head towards the earth, and worshiped.

World English Bible
Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.

Young's Literal Translation
And Moses hasteth, and boweth to the earth, and doth obeisance,

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Context
The Tablets are Replaced
7maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.” 8Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped. 9“O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”…

Cross References
Exodus 4:31
and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.

Haggai 2:5
This is the promise I made to you when you came out of Egypt. And My Spirit remains among you; do not be afraid."


Treasury of Scripture

And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

Exodus 4:31
And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

Genesis 17:3
And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,

2 Chronicles 20:18
And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.

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Exodus 34
1. The tablets are replaced
5. The name of the Lord proclaimed
8. Moses entreats God to go with them
10. God makes a covenant with them, repeating certain duties
28. Moses after forty days on the mount, comes down with the tablets
29. His face is radiant, and he covers it with a veil














(8) Moses made haste, and bowed his head.--As the Divine glory passed before him, Moses bowed his head in adoration, worshipping God, and not daring to look until the glory had gone by. It is thus seen that with his ardent desire to look into the things of God he combined the highest and deepest reverence.

Verse 8. - Moses made haste and bowed his head. Worshipping the glory that had passed by, and accepting the gracious words addressed to him.

CHAPTER 34:9-26

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Moses
מֹשֶׁ֑ה (mō·šeh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4872: Moses -- a great Israelite leader, prophet and lawgiver

immediately
וַיְמַהֵ֖ר (way·ma·hêr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4116: To be liquid, flow easily, to hurry, promptly

bowed down
וַיִּקֹּ֥ד (way·yiq·qōḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6915: To shrivel up, contract, bend the body, in deference

to the ground
אַ֖רְצָה (’ar·ṣāh)
Noun - feminine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

and worshiped.
וַיִּשְׁתָּֽחוּ׃ (way·yiš·tā·ḥū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7812: To depress, prostrate


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