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Exodus 33 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Moses and the Tent of Meeting

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:1 -

Then Yahweh 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 seed I will give it.’

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:2 - “And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:3 - Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst because you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way.”
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Then the people heard this [fn]sad word and went into mourning; and none of them put on his ornaments.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:5 - So Yahweh said to Moses, “Say to the sons of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; should I go up in your midst for one moment, I would consume you. So now, put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what I shall do with you.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:6 - So the sons of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:7 -

Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, a good distance from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought Yahweh would go out to the tent of meeting which was outside the camp.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:8 - And it happened whenever Moses went out to the tent, that all the people would arise and stand, each at the entrance of his tent, and gaze after Moses until he entered the tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:9 - And it happened whenever Moses entered the tent, that the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent; and [fn]Yahweh would speak with Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:10 - And all the people would see the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent. And all the people would arise and worship, each at the entrance of his tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:11 - Thus Yahweh used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. Then [fn]Moses would return to the camp, and his attendant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

Moses and the Glory of Yahweh

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Then Moses said to Yahweh, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people!’ But You Yourself have not let me know whom You will send with me. Moreover, You have said, ‘I have known you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.’

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:13 - “So now, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, let me know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. See also, that this nation is Your people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:14 - And He said, “My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:15 - Then he said to Him, “If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:16 - “Indeed, how then can 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, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are upon the face of the [fn]earth?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:17 -

Then Yahweh said to Moses, “I will also do this thing of which you have spoken; for you have found favor in My sight, and I have known you by name.”

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Exodus 33:17 Commentaries
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:18 - Then [fn]Moses said, “I pray You, show me Your glory!”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:19 - And He said, “I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show compassion on whom I will show compassion.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:20 - But He said, “You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:21 - Then Yahweh said, “Behold, there is a place [fn]by Me, and you shall stand there on the rock;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:22 - and it will come about, while My glory is passing by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:23 - “Then I will remove My hand, and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen.”
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