¹¹ Inside the Tent of Meeting, the Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Afterward Moses would return to the camp, but the young man who assisted him, Joshua son of Nun, would remain behind in the Tent of Meeting.

¹⁰ There has never been another prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face.

⁹ As he went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and hover at its entrance while the Lord spoke with Moses.

¹³ So Moses and his assistant Joshua set out, and Moses climbed up the mountain of God.

⁴ At the mountain the Lord spoke to you face to face from the heart of the fire.

³⁰ Jacob named the place Peniel (which means “face of God”), for he said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been spared.”

¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command. ¹⁵ I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.

²³ And so it happened just as the Scriptures say: “Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith.”^[a] He was even called the friend of God.^[b]

¹¹ Then he said, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but now I will go and wake him up.”