Compare & Correlate · Explicit
Elijah and Moses at the mountain
Moses in the cleft of the rock and Elijah at the mouth of the cave, each on the mountain of God, each after forty days and forty nights, each as the LORD passes by. The shared words are checked and drawn without arrows. Two later texts name the pair together — Malachi and Mark — and those rows carry the linking verse.
Explicit: A later verse makes this link, and it is printed on the arrow.
Elijah and Moses at the mountain. Explicit — a later text makes this connection, and the verse that makes it is printed on the arrow.
The words, as the corpus holds them (each checked present, or absent, in the verses cited beside it):
- אַרְבָּעִים arba'im, “forty”
- יוֹם yom, “day”
- לַיְלָה laylah, “night”
- צוּר tsur, “rock”
- נְקָרָה neqarah, “cleft”
- מְעָרָה me'arah, “cave”
- עָבַר avar, “pass by”
- סֶלַע sela, “crag”
- פָּנִים panim, “face”
- אַדֶּרֶת adderet, “mantle”
- מֹשֶׁה Moshe, “Moses”
- אֵלִיָּה Eliyyah, “Elijah”
Sources:
- Hebrew words checked in the verses cited beside them by tests/test_correlations.py; Greek references checked against SBLGNT for existence only.
- Horeb is not checked as a word: its lemma is the same string as 'sword' and 'be dry' in the corpus.
Row by row
| Moses, Exodus 33–34 | Elijah, 1 Kings 19 | Together, Malachi 3 and Mark 9 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forty days and nights | forty days and forty nights; no bread, no waterExodus 34:28 | forty days and forty nights on the strength of one meal1 Kings 19:8 | not mentioned |
| The place | on the rock, in a cleft of itExodus 33:21-22 | the cave1 Kings 19:9 | not mentioned |
| Two words for the place. That Elijah's cave is Moses' cleft — the article on 'the cave' invites it — is a reading, not a verse. | |||
| The LORD passes by | while my glory passes byExodus 33:22 | and behold, the LORD passed by1 Kings 19:11 | not mentioned |
| One verb, avar, in both; the rocks broken before Elijah are sela. | |||
| The face | you shall see my back; my face shall not be seenExodus 33:23 | he wrapped his face in his mantle1 Kings 19:13 | not mentioned |
| Named together | Moses, and the law commanded at HorebMalachi 3:22 | Elijah the prophet, sent before the day of the LORDMalachi 3:23 | the last verses of the ProphetsMalachi 3:22-23 |
| Linking verse: Malachi 3:22-23 — “remember the law of my servant Moses … I will send you Elijah the prophet” | |||
| Malachi 3:22-23 in the Hebrew numbering is 4:4-5 in English Bibles. | |||
| On the mountain again | not mentioned | not mentioned | on a high mountain, Elijah with Moses, talking with JesusMark 9:4 |
| Linking verse: Mark 9:4 — “there appeared to them Elijah with Moses” | |||
Where it appears in the text
- Exodus 33 — Moses in the cleft of the rock as the LORD passes by
- Exodus 34 — forty days and forty nights on the mountain
- 1 Kings 19 — Elijah at the cave on Horeb as the LORD passes by
- Malachi 3 — Moses at Horeb and Elijah the prophet, named together
- Mark 9 — Elijah with Moses on the mountain
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