Exodus 33Book 2 of 66 · 23 verses · MBT primary, NKJV fallback where MBT pending

  1. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Depart and go up from here, 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 offspring I will give it.'"
  2. I will send My angel ahead of you, and I will drive out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
  3. Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey, but I will not go up in your midst, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked and obstinate people.
  4. When the people heard this disastrous news, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments.
  5. For the LORD had said to Moses, "Say to the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. Now therefore, take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do with you.'"
  6. So the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from Mount Horeb onward.
  7. Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it the tabernacle of meeting, and everyone who sought the LORD would go out to the tabernacle of meeting which was outside the camp.
  8. Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would rise and each man would stand at his tent door and gaze after Moses until he had gone into the tent.
  9. And it came to pass, whenever Moses entered the tabernacle, that the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the entrance of the tabernacle, and the LORD talked with Moses.
  10. All the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tabernacle, and all the people rose and worshiped, each man at his tent door.
  11. The LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend, and Moses would return to the camp, but his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
  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, yet You have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.'"
  13. Now therefore, I pray, if I have found favor in Your sight, teach me Your ways, that I may know You so that I may find favor in Your sight, and consider that this nation is Your people.
  14. And He said, "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."
  15. Then he said to Him, "If Your Presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here."
  16. For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall be distinguished, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth.
  17. So the LORD said to Moses, "I will indeed do this very thing that you have spoken, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name."
  18. And Moses said, "Please, show me Your glory."
  19. Then He said, "I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show mercy on whom I will show mercy."
  20. But He said, "You cannot see My face, for no one shall see Me and live."
  21. And the LORD said, "Here is a place near Me, and you shall stand on the rock.
  22. So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock and will cover you with My hand until I have passed by.
  23. Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see Me from behind, but My face shall not be seen.