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Exodus 33:1-23 — Moses and the Glory of God

Exod.33.1-23

¹Then the LORD spoke to Moses, "Go, go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'To your offspring I will give it.' ²I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, ³to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way." ⁴When the people heard this bad news, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments. ⁵For the LORD had said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, 'You are a stiff-necked people; if I were to go up among you for a single moment, I would consume you. So now, take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do to you.'” ⁶So the Israelites stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward. ⁷Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it the Tent of Meeting. And everyone who sought the LORD would go out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp. ⁸Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would rise up and stand, each one at the entrance of his tent, and they would watch Moses until he entered the tent. ⁹Whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the LORD would speak with Moses. ¹⁰When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, each one at the entrance of his tent. ¹¹Thus the LORD would speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent. ¹²Then Moses said to the LORD, "Look, You are saying to me, 'Bring up this people,' but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.' ¹³Now therefore, if I have found favor in Your sight, please let me know Your ways, that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. Consider too that this nation is Your people." ¹⁴And He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” ¹⁵Then Moses said to Him, "If Your presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. ¹⁶For how then will it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we are distinguished, I and Your people, from all the people who are on the face of the earth?" ¹⁷The LORD said to Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have spoken, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.” ¹⁸Then Moses said, “Please show me Your glory.” ¹⁹And He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show compassion to whom I will show compassion.” ²⁰But He said, “You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live.” ²¹Then the LORD said, "Behold, there is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock; ²²and it will come about, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by. ²³Then I will take away My hand, and you will see My back; but My face must not be seen."

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4/11/2026

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