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Exodus 33 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Exo 33:1

Exo 33:1The LORD said to Moses, "Depart, go up hence, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, 'To your descendants I will give it.'

Exo 33:2

Exo 33:2And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites.

Exo 33:3

Exo 33:3Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, lest I consume you in the way, for you are a stiff-necked people."

Exo 33:4

Exo 33:4When the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned; and no man put on his ornaments.

Exo 33:5

Exo 33:5For the LORD had said to Moses, "Say to the people of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do with you.'"

Exo 33:6

Exo 33:6Therefore the people of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.

Exo 33:7

Exo 33:7Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp; and he called it the tent of meeting. And every one who sought the LORD would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.

Exo 33:8

Exo 33:8Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose up, and every man stood at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he had gone into the tent.

Exo 33:9

Exo 33:9When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the door of the tent, and the LORD would speak with Moses.

Exo 33:10

Exo 33:10And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the door of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, every man at his tent door.

Exo 33:11

Exo 33:11Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tent.

Moses Intercedes

Exo 33:12

Exo 33:12Moses said to the LORD, "See, thou sayest to me, 'Bring up this people'; but thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.'

Exo 33:13

Exo 33:13Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thy sight, show me now thy ways, that I may know thee and find favor in thy sight. Consider too that this nation is thy people."

Exo 33:14

Exo 33:14And he said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."

Exo 33:15

Exo 33:15And he said to him, "If thy presence will not go with me, do not carry us up from here.

Exo 33:16

Exo 33:16For how shall it be known that I have found favor in thy sight, I and thy people? Is it not in thy going with us, so that we are distinct, I and thy people, from all other people that are upon the face of the earth?"

Exo 33:17

Exo 33:17And the LORD said to Moses, "This very thing that you have spoken I will do; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name."

Exo 33:18

Exo 33:18Moses said, "I pray thee, show me thy glory."

Exo 33:19

Exo 33:19And he said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim before you my name 'The LORD'; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.

Exo 33:20

Exo 33:20But," he said, "you cannot see my face; for man shall not see me and live."

Exo 33:21

Exo 33:21And the LORD said, "Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand upon the rock;

Exo 33:22

Exo 33:22and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;

Exo 33:23

Exo 33:23then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back; but my face shall not be seen."
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