Exod 33
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And YHWH spoke to Moses, Depart, go up hence, you and the people that you have brought
up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and
to Jacob, saying, To your seed will I give it:
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and I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite,
and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
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to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for
you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way.
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And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on
him his ornaments.
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And YHWH said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You are a stiff-necked people;
if I go up into the midst of you for one moment, I shall consume you: therefore now
put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do to you.
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And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from mount Horeb
onward.
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Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it without the camp, afar off from the
camp; and he called it, The tent of meeting. And it came to pass, that every one that
sought YHWH went out to the tent of meeting, which was without the camp.
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And it came to pass, when Moses went out to the Tent, that all the people rose up,
and stood, every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into
the Tent.
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And it came to pass, when Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended,
and stood at the door of the Tent: and [YHWH] spoke with Moses.
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And all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent: and all
the people rose up and worshiped, every man at his tent door.
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And YHWH spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he turned
again into the camp: but his minister Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed
not out of the Tent.
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And Moses said to YHWH, See, you say to me, Bring up this people: and 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.
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Now therefore, I pray you, if I have found favor in your sight, show me now your ways,
that I may know you, to the end that I may find favor in your sight: and consider
that this nation is your people.
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And he said, My presence shall go [with you], and I will give you rest.
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And he said to him, If your presence go not [with me], carry us not up hence.
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For wherein now shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your
people? is it not in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people,
from all the people that are upon the face of the earth?
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And YHWH said to Moses, I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have
found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.
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And he said, Show me, I pray you, your glory.
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And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name
of YHWH before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show
mercy on whom I will show mercy.
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And he said, You can not see my face; for man shall not see me and live.
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and YHWH said, Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand upon the rock:
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and it shall come to pass, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft
of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by:
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and I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back; but my face shall not be
seen.