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up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I does not go with us, do not bring us up from
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will not go up in your midst, lest I consume you here. For how then will it be known that Your
on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.” people and I have found grace in Your sight,
4 And when the people heard this bad news, except You go with us? So we shall be sepa-
they mourned, and no one put on his orna- rate, Your people and I, from all the people
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ments. For the LORD had said to Moses, “Say who are upon the face of the earth.”
to the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked 17 So the LORD said to Moses, “I will also do
people. I could come up into your midst in one this thing that you have spoken; for you have
moment and consume you. Now therefore, found grace in My sight, and I know you by
take off your ornaments, that I may know name.”
what to do to you.’ ” So the children of Israel 18 And he said, “Please, show me Your glory.”
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stripped themselves of their ornaments by 19 Then He said, “I will make all My good-
Mount Horeb. ness pass before you, and I will proclaim the
7 Moses took his tent and pitched it outside name of the LORD before you. I will be gra-
the camp, far from the camp, and called it the cious to whom I will be gracious, and I will
tabernacle of meeting. And it came to pass have compassion on whom I will have com-
that everyone who sought the LORD went out passion.” But He said, “You cannot see My
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to the tabernacle of meeting which was out- face; for no man shall see Me, and live.” And
side the camp. So it was, whenever Moses the LORD said, “Here is a place by Me, and you
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went out to the tabernacle, that all the people shall stand on the rock. So it shall be, while
rose, and each man stood at his tent door and My glory passes by, that I will put you in the
watched Moses until he had gone into the tab- cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My
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ernacle. And it came to pass, when Moses hand while I pass by. Then I will take away
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entered the tabernacle, that the pillar of cloud My hand, and you shall see My back; but My
descended and stood at the door of the taber- face shall not be seen.”
nacle, and the LORD talked with Moses. All the And the LORD said to Moses, “Cut two
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people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the 34tablets of stone like the first ones, and I
tabernacle door, and all the people rose and will write on these tablets the words that were on
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worshiped, each man in his tent door. So the the first tablets which you broke. So be ready
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LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man in the morning, and come up in the morning to
speaks to his friend. And he would return to the Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me there
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camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a on the top of the mountain. And no man shall
young man, did not depart from the tabernacle. come up with you, and let no man be seen
12 Then Moses said to the LORD, “See, You throughout all the mountain; let neither flocks
say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have nor herds feed before that mountain.”
not let me know whom You will send with me. 4 So he cut two tablets of stone like the first
Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and ones. Then Moses rose early in the morning
you have also found grace in My sight.’ Now and went up Mount Sinai, as the LORD had
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therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your commanded him; and he took in his hand the
sight, show me now Your way, that I may know two tablets of stone.
You and that I may find grace in Your sight. 5 Now the LORD descended in the cloud and
And consider that this nation is Your people.” stood with him there, and proclaimed the name
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14 And He said, “My Presence will go with of the LORD. And the LORD passed before him
you, and I will give you rest.” and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God,
15 Then he said to Him, “If Your Presence merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and
abounding in goodness and truth, keeping
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mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and
transgression and sin, by no means clearing
the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
33:12–17 Again Moses entered earnestly and
confidently into the role of intercessor before upon the children and the children’s children
God for the nation whom he again referred to to the third and the fourth generation.”
as “Your people” (vv. 13,16). Moses clearly 8 So Moses made haste and bowed his head
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understood that without God’s presence they toward the earth, and worshiped. Then he
would not be a people set apart from other said, “If now I have found grace in Your sight,
nations, so why travel any further? Moses’ O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even
favored standing before the Lord comes out in though we are a stiff-necked people; and par-
the positive response to his intercession (v.17). don our iniquity and our sin, and take us as
Your inheritance.”
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