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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Exodus 34:2

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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present thyself . . . to me in the top of the mount--Not absolutely the highest peak; for as the cloud of the Shekinah usually abode on the summit, and yet (Exo 34:5) it "descended," the plain inference is that Moses was to station himself at a point not far distant, but still below the loftiest pinnacle.
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