Exodus 33

1Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Depart, go up from here, 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, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’Cross-references: Gen 12:7 · Gen 13:14 · Gen 15:18 · Gen 22:16 · Gen 26:3 · Gen 28:13 · +5 more

2I 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.Cross-references: Ex 3:8 · Ex 3:17 · Ex 23:20 · Ex 23:27 · Ex 32:34 · Ex 34:11 · +2 more

3Go to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way.”Cross-references: Ex 3:8 · Ex 13:5 · Ex 23:21 · Ex 32:9 · Ex 32:14 · Ex 33:15 · +21 more

4When the people heard this evil news, they mourned; and no one put on his jewelry.Cross-references: Lev 10:6 · Num 14:1 · Num 14:39 · 2Sam 19:24 · 1Ki 21:27 · 2Ki 19:1 · +12 more

5Yahweh had said to Moses, “Tell the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up among you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.’”Cross-references: Gen 18:21 · Gen 22:12 · Ex 33:3 · Num 16:21 · Num 16:45 · Deut 8:2 · +5 more

6The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.Cross-references: Ex 32:3 · Ex 33:4 · Jer 2:19

7Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it “The Tent of Meeting.” Everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp.Cross-references: Ex 29:42 · Deut 4:29 · 2Sam 21:1 · Ps 10:1 · Ps 27:8 · Ps 35:22 · +6 more

8When Moses went out to the Tent, all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.Cross-references: Num 16:27

9When Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and Yahweh spoke with Moses.Cross-references: Gen 17:22 · Gen 18:33 · Ex 13:21 · Ex 25:22 · Ex 31:18 · Ex 33:11 · +5 more

10All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.Cross-references: Ex 4:31 · 1Ki 8:14 · 1Ki 8:22 · Luke 18:13

11Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.Cross-references: Gen 32:30 · Ex 17:9 · Ex 24:13 · Ex 32:17 · Ex 33:9 · Num 12:8 · +9 more

12Moses said to Yahweh, “Behold, you tell me, ‘Bring up this people;’ and you haven’t 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.’Cross-references: Gen 18:19 · Ex 3:10 · Ex 32:34 · Ex 33:1 · Ex 33:17 · Ps 1:6 · +4 more

13Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me your way, now, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight; and consider that this nation is your people.”Cross-references: Ex 32:7 · Ex 33:17 · Ex 34:9 · Deut 9:26 · Deut 9:29 · Ps 25:4 · +13 more

14He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”Cross-references: Ex 13:21 · Deut 3:20 · Josh 1:5 · Josh 21:44 · Josh 22:4 · Josh 23:1 · +6 more

15Moses said to him, “If your presence doesn’t go with me, don’t carry us up from here.Cross-references: Ex 33:3 · Ex 34:9 · Ps 4:6

16For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn’t it that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?”Cross-references: Ex 8:22 · Ex 19:5 · Ex 34:10 · Num 14:14 · Num 23:9 · Deut 4:7 · +6 more

17Yahweh 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.”Cross-references: Gen 6:8 · Gen 18:32 · Gen 19:19 · Gen 19:21 · Ex 33:12 · Isa 65:24 · +3 more

18Moses said, “Please show me your glory.”Cross-references: Ex 33:20 · Ps 4:6 · John 1:18 · 2Cor 3:18 · 2Cor 4:6 · 1Tim 6:16 · +2 more

19He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”Cross-references: Ex 3:13 · Ex 34:5 · Neh 9:25 · Ps 25:13 · Ps 65:4 · Isa 7:14 · +9 more

20He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.”Cross-references: Gen 32:30 · Ex 24:10 · Deut 5:24 · Judg 6:22 · Judg 13:22 · Isa 6:5 · +4 more

21Yahweh also said, “Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock.Cross-references: Deut 5:31 · Josh 20:4 · Isa 56:5 · Zech 3:7 · Luke 15:1

22It will happen, 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;Cross-references: Deut 33:12 · Ps 18:2 · Ps 91:1 · Ps 91:4 · Song 2:3 · Isa 2:21 · +3 more

23then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen.”Cross-references: Ex 33:20 · Job 11:7 · Job 26:14 · John 1:18 · 1Cor 13:12 · 1Tim 6:16