What Does Exodus 24:13 Mean?
And Moses rose up, and his attendant Joshua, and Moses went up into the mountain of God.
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And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.THE KEY
The one named “drawn out” rises toward God, while “YHWH delivers” is named as his attendant.
THE MEANING
The verse meets you in a movement from being drawn out to rising toward God. It places deliverance beside that ascent in Joshua’s name, while naming him as Moses’ attendant. The mountain of God marks the direction of the movement.
THE ROOT
מֹשֶׁה
Mōsheh
GROWS FROM
משה
m-sh-h
Draw out, as from water.
The name Moses is tied to מָשָׁה (māšâ), “draw out.” Here the one named for being drawn out rises and goes up: the name carries a movement beyond the place from which he was drawn.
ALSO GROWS
māšâ: To draw out
מָשָׁה
This is the verb linked to Moses’ name and to the act of drawing him out of the water.
mĕšîtihû: I drew him out
מְשִׁיתִהוּ
This form appears in Exodus 2:10, joining the name Moses to the movement of being drawn out.
יְהוֹשֻׁעַ
Yehoshua
GROWS FROM
ישע
y-sh-ʿ
Deliver, bring out from constriction into spaciousness.
“Joshua” in this verse is Yehoshua. Yehoshua joins the divine name with יָשַׁע (yāshaʿ), “deliver.” The verse names him as Moses’ attendant, placing deliverance in a posture of service beside the ascent.
ALSO GROWS
yeshuʿah: Deliverance
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun grows from the same root carried in Joshua’s name.
môshîaʿ: One who delivers
מוֹשִׁיעַ
This form makes the root’s action personal: deliverance is carried out by a deliverer.
וַיַּעַל
wayyaʿal
GROWS FROM
עלה
ʿ-l-h
Go up, ascend.
“went up” in this verse is wayyaʿal. The verb for Moses’ ascent shares its root with the language of ascending. The same root appears in the question of who may ascend the LORD’s hill, joining physical movement upward with approach into God’s presence.
ALSO GROWS
ʿaliyah: Ascent, going up
עֲלִיָּה
This noun makes explicit the upward movement expressed by the verb in the verse.
ʿolah: Ascending offering
עֹלָה
Its name is formed from the same root of going up, extending the root’s upward movement into another image.
THE PATTERN
Approach to God is spoken of as rising, ascending, and drawing near.
And the LORD said to Moses, Come up to me into the mountain, and be there, and I will give you tablets of stone, and instruction, and commandments which I have written, that you may teach them.Who climbs the mountain of the LORD? Who stands in his set-apart place?Let us therefore draw near, with open speech, to the throne of favor, that we may receive compassion, and find favor to help in the right moment.THE THREAD
And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, the one drawn out, and she said, Because from the waters I drew him out.Exodus 2:10 ties Moses’ name to מָשָׁה (māšâ), “draw out.” Here the one named for being drawn out is the one who rises toward the mountain, carrying the movement from deliverance into encounter.
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