The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 40:35

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Moses was not able to enter. It is implied that he wished—nay, tried—to enter—but the "glory" prevented him. (Compare 1 Kings 8:11; 2 Chronicles 5:14; 2 Chronicles 7:2.) Because the cloud abode thereon.

It was not the external "cloud" which prevented Moses from entering, but the internal "glory." But the two are regarded as inseparable.

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