| 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, Depart, go up hence, thou and the
people that thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land of
which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed
will I give it: 2 and I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive
out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the
Hivite, and the Jebusite: 3 unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I
will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou art a stiffnecked people, lest
I consume thee in the way. 4 And when the people heard these evil tidings,
they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments. 5 And Jehovah said
unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people; if
I go up into the midst of thee for one moment, I shall consume thee:
therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do
unto thee. 6 And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their
ornaments from mount Horeb onward.
7 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 Jehovah went out unto the tent of meeting,
which was without the camp. 8 And it came to pass, when Moses went out
unto 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. 9 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 Jehovah spake with
Moses. 10 And all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of
the Tent: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man at his tent
door. 11 And Jehovah spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto
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.
12 And Moses said unto Jehovah, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this
people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou
hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found favor in my sight.
13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thy sight, show me
now thy ways, that I may know thee, to the end that I may find favor in thy
sight: and consider that this nation is thy people. 14 And he said, My
presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. 15 And he
said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.
16 For wherein now shall it be known that I have found favor in thy sight,
I and thy people? is it not in that thou goest with us, so that we are
separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of
the earth?
17 And Jehovah said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast
spoken; for thou hast found favor in my sight, and I know thee by name.
18 And he said, Show me, I pray thee, thy glory. 19 And he said, I will
make all my goodness pass before thee, and will proclaim the name of Jehovah
before thee; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show
mercy on whom I will show mercy. 20 And he said, Thou canst not see my
face; for man shall not see me and live. 21 and Jehovah said, Behold,
there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock: 22 and it
shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a
cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand until I have passed by:
23 and I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back; but my face
shall not be seen.
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