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    Exodus 33

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    Moses leaves the Tent of Meeting, but Joshua stays behind. The chapter gives Joshua no explanation, which is a wonderfully abrupt little mystery in the middle of the cloud, the worship, and the conversation “face to face.”

    The people remove their jewelryvv. 1–6

    The LORD sends Moses and the Israelites onward toward the promised land, with an angel to drive out its peoples. The land flows with milk and honey, but the LORD will not go with them, lest their stiff-neckedness bring destruction on the way. Hearing this, the people mourn; then they strip off their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward, while the LORD leaves the question of what to do with them hanging in the air.

    The tent outside the campvv. 7–11

    Moses pitches the Tent of Meeting outside the camp, and the people watch from their own tent entrances whenever he goes there. The pillar of cloud comes down, the people worship, and the LORD speaks with Moses face to face, as one speaks with a friend. Moses returns to the camp; Joshua son of Nun does not leave the tent, and the chapter does not say why.

    Moses asks for the Presence and the gloryvv. 12–23

    Moses presses the LORD about who will go with the people, and refuses to let them leave unless the Presence goes with them. The LORD agrees, because Moses has found favor and is known by name. Then Moses asks to see the glory: the LORD promises that goodness will pass before him, but not the face. Moses is placed in a cleft of the rock, covered by the LORD’s hand, and allowed to see only the back after the glory has passed.

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    1. Exod 33:1Then the LORD said to Moses, “Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of the land of Egypt, and go to the land that I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’

    2. Exod 33:2And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

    3. Exod 33:3Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”

    4. Exod 33:4When the people heard this bad news, they went into mourning, and no one put on any of his jewelry.

    5. Exod 33:5For the LORD had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I should go with you for a single moment, I would destroy you. Now take off your jewelry, and I will decide what to do with you.’”

    6. Exod 33:6So the Israelites stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.

    7. Exod 33:7Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it at a distance outside the camp. He called it the Tent of Meeting, and anyone inquiring of the LORD would go to the Tent of Meeting outside the camp.

    8. Exod 33:8Then, whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would stand at the entrances to their own tents and watch Moses until he entered the tent.

    9. Exod 33:9As Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and remain at the entrance, and the LORD would speak with Moses.

    10. Exod 33:10When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, they would stand up and worship, each one at the entrance to his own tent.

    11. Exod 33:11Thus the LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young assistant Joshua son of Nun would not leave the tent.

    12. Exod 33:12Then Moses said to the LORD, “Look, You have been telling me, ‘Lead this people up,’ but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have found favor in My sight.’

    13. Exod 33:13Now if indeed I have found favor in Your sight, please let me know Your ways, that I may know You and find favor in Your sight. Remember that this nation is Your people.”

    14. Exod 33:14And the LORD answered, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

    15. Exod 33:15“If Your Presence does not go with us,” Moses replied, “do not lead us up from here.

    16. Exod 33:16For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”

    17. Exod 33:17So the LORD said to Moses, “I will do this very thing you have asked, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.”

    18. Exod 33:18Then Moses said, “Please show me Your glory.”

    19. Exod 33:19“I will cause all My goodness to pass before you,” the LORD replied, “and I will proclaim My name—the LORD—in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

    20. Exod 33:20But He added, “You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live.”

    21. Exod 33:21The LORD continued, “There is a place near Me where you are to stand upon a rock,

    22. Exod 33:22and when My glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by.

    23. Exod 33:23Then I will take My hand away, and you will see My back; but My face must not be seen.”

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 14Matthew 11:28Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
    • 14Joshua 21:44And the LORD gave them rest on every side, just as He had sworn to their fathers. None of their enemies could stand against them, for the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.
    • 14Joshua 1:5No one shall stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.
    • 14Isaiah 63:9In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
    • 13Psalms 119:33Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes, and I will keep them to the end.
    • 14Hebrews 4:8–9For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.
    • 19Romans 9:15–18For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
    • 11Numbers 12:8I speak with him face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you unafraid to speak against My servant Moses?”
    • 14Psalms 95:11So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
    • 14Joshua 22:4And now that the LORD your God has given your brothers rest as He promised them, you may return to your homes in the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you across the Jordan.
    • 13Psalms 25:4Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths.
    • 20Genesis 32:30So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
    • 20John 1:18No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
    • 14Matthew 28:20and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
    • 14Exodus 13:21And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.
    • 14Jeremiah 6:16This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’

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