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Exodus - Chapter 33

	Exd 33:1	Then the LORD spoke to Moses, "Depart, 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, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, 'To your [fn]descendants I will give it.'
	Exd 33:2	"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.
	Exd 33:3	"Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, because you are [fn]an obstinate people, and I might destroy you on the way."
	Exd 33:4	When the people heard this [fn]sad word, they went into mourning, and none of them put on his ornaments.
	Exd 33:5	For the LORD had said to Moses, "Say to the sons of Israel, 'You are [fn]an obstinate people; should I go up in your midst for one moment, I would destroy you. Now therefore, put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what I shall do with you.'"
	Exd 33:6	So the sons of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.
	Exd 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 the LORD would go out to the tent of meeting which was outside the camp.
	Exd 33:8	And it came about, 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.
	Exd 33:9	Whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent; and [fn]the LORD would speak with Moses.
	Exd 33:10	When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would arise and worship, each at the entrance of his tent.
	Exd 33:11	Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. When [fn]Moses returned to the camp, his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
	Exd 33:12	Then Moses said to the LORD, "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.'
	Exd 33:13	"Now therefore, 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. Consider too, that this nation is Your people."
	Exd 33:14	And He said, "My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest."
	Exd 33:15	Then he said to Him, "If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here.
	Exd 33:16	"For 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?"
	Exd 33:17	The LORD 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."
	Exd 33:18	Then [fn]Moses said, "I pray You, show me Your glory!"
	Exd 33:19	And He said, "I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the LORD before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion on whom I will show compassion."
	Exd 33:20	But He said, "You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!"
	Exd 33:21	Then the LORD said, "Behold, there is a place [fn]by Me, and you shall stand there on the rock;
	Exd 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.
	Exd 33:23	"Then I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen."

NASB Footnotes:

(33:1) Literally: seed
(33:3) Literally: a stiff-necked
(33:4) Literally: evil
(33:5) Literally: a stiff-necked
(33:9) Literally: He
(33:11) Literally: he
(33:16) Literally: ground
(33:18) Literally: he
(33:21) Literally: with

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