⁷ Now Moses used to take ^(A)the tent and pitch it outside the camp, a good distance from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And ^(B)everyone who sought the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting which was outside the camp. ⁸ And it came about, whenever Moses went out to the tent, that all the people would arise and stand, each at the entrance of his tent, and gaze after Moses until he entered the tent. ⁹ Whenever Moses entered the tent, ^(C)the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent; ^(D)and ^[a]the Lord would speak with Moses. ¹⁰ When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would stand and worship, each at the entrance of his tent. ¹¹ So ^(E)the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. When ^[b]Moses returned to the camp, ^(F)his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

Moses Intercedes

¹² Then Moses said to the Lord, “See, You say to me, ‘^(G)Bring up this people!’ But You Yourself have not let me know ^(H)whom You will send with me. ^(I)Moreover, You have said, ‘I have known you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.’ ¹³ Now then, if I have found favor in Your sight in any way, please ^(J)let me know Your ways so that I may know You, in order that I may find favor in Your sight. ^(K)Consider too, that this nation is Your people.” ¹⁴ And He said, “^(L)My presence shall go with you, and ^(M)I will give you rest.” ¹⁵ Then he said to Him, “^(N)If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here. ¹⁶ For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that ^(O)we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are on the face of the ^[c]earth?”

¹⁷ The Lord said to Moses, “I will also do this thing of which you have spoken; ^(P)for you have found favor in My sight and I have known you by name.” ^18 (Q)Then Moses said, “Please, show me Your glory!” ¹⁹ And He said, “^(R)I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the Lord before you; and ^(S)I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion to whom I will show compassion.” ²⁰ He further said, “You cannot see My face, ^(T)for mankind shall not see Me and live!” ²¹ Then the Lord said, “Behold, there is a place ^[d]by Me, and ^(U)you shall stand there on the rock; ²² and it will come about, while My glory is passing by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock and ^(V)cover you with My hand until I have passed by. ²³ Then I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but ^(W)My face shall not be seen.”

The Ten Commandments Repeated

5 Now Moses summoned all Israel and said to them:

“Listen, Israel, to the statutes and ordinances which I am speaking today ^[a]for you to hear, so that you may learn them and be careful to do them. ² The Lord our God made ^(A)a covenant with us at Horeb. ^3 (B)The Lord did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, all ^[b]of us who are alive here today. ⁴ The Lord spoke with you ^(C)face to face at the mountain ^(D)from the midst of the fire, ⁵ while ^(E)I was standing between the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the Lord; ^(F)for you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up on the mountain. ^[c]He said,

⁶ ‘^(G)I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of ^[d]slavery.

⁷ ‘^(H)You shall have no other gods besides Me.

⁸ ‘^(I)You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any ^[e]likeness of what is in heaven above ^[f]or on the earth beneath ^[g]or in the water under the earth. ⁹ You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, ^(J)inflicting the ^[h]punishment of the fathers on the children, ^[i]even on the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, ¹⁰ but ^(K)showing ^[j]favor to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

¹¹ ‘^(L)You shall not take the name of the Lord your God ^[k]in vain, for the Lord will not ^[l]leave unpunished the one who takes His name in vain.

¹² ‘^(M)Keep the Sabbath day to treat it as holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. ¹³ For six days you ^[m]shall labor and do all your work, ¹⁴ but ^(N)the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord your God; you shall not do any work that day, you or your son or your daughter, or your male slave or your female slave, or your ox, your donkey, or any of your cattle, or your ^[n]resident who ^[o]stays with you, so that your male slave and your female slave may rest as well as you. ^15 (O)And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to ^[p]celebrate the Sabbath day.

¹⁶ ‘^(P)Honor your father and your mother, just as the Lord your God has commanded you, ^(Q)so that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well for you on the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

¹⁷ ‘^(R)You shall not murder.

¹⁸ ‘^(S)You shall not commit adultery.

¹⁹ ‘^(T)You shall not steal.

²⁰ ‘^(U)You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

²¹ ‘^(V)You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his male slave or his female slave, his ox, his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.’

The Love Question

¹⁵ Now when they had ^(A)finished breakfast, Jesus *said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you ^[a](B)love Me more than these?” He *said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I ^[b]love You.” He *said to him, “Tend ^(C)My lambs.” ¹⁶ He *said to him again, a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you ^[c]love Me?” He *said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I ^[d]love You.” He *said to him, “^(D)Shepherd My sheep.” ¹⁷ He *said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you ^[e]love Me?” Peter was ^[f]hurt because He said to him ^(E)the third time, “Do you ^[g]love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, ^(F)You know all things; You know that I ^[h]love You.” Jesus *said to him, “^(G)Tend My sheep.

Our Times Are in His Hand

¹⁸ Truly, truly I tell you, when you were younger, you used to put on your belt and walk wherever you wanted; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will put your belt on you, and bring you where you do not want to go.” ¹⁹ Now He said this, ^(H)indicating by ^(I)what kind of death he would glorify God. And when He had said this, He *said to him, “^(J)Follow Me!”

²⁰ Peter turned around and *saw the ^(K)disciple whom Jesus loved following them—the one who also had ^(L)leaned back on His chest at the supper and said, “Lord, who is the one who is betraying You?” ²¹ So Peter, upon seeing him, *said to Jesus, “Lord, and what about this man?” ²² Jesus *said to him, “If I want him to remain ^(M)until I come, what is that to you? You ^(N)follow Me!” ²³ Therefore this ^[i]account went out among ^(O)the brothers, that that disciple would not die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but only, “If I want him to remain ^(P)until I come, what is that to you?”

²⁴ This is the disciple who ^(Q)is testifying about these things and wrote these things, and we know that his testimony is true.

²⁵ But there are also ^(R)many other things which Jesus did, which, if they were written in detail, I expect that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written.

^9 (A)Then one of the seven angels who had the ^(B)seven bowls, ^[a]full of the ^(C)seven last plagues, came and spoke with me, saying, “^(D)Come here, I will show you the ^(E)bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

The New Jerusalem

¹⁰ And ^(F)he carried me away ^[b](G)in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me ^(H)the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, ¹¹ having ^(I)the glory of God. Her ^[c]brilliance was like a very valuable stone, like a ^(J)stone of ^(K)crystal-clear jasper. ^12 [d]It had a great and high wall, ^[e](L)with twelve ^(M)gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names were written on the gates, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. ¹³ There were three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west. ¹⁴ And the wall of the city had ^(N)twelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the ^(O)twelve apostles of the Lamb.

¹⁵ The one who spoke with me had a ^[f]gold measuring ^(P)rod to measure the city, its ^(Q)gates, and its wall. ¹⁶ The city is laid out as a square, and its length is as great as the width; and he measured the city with the ^[g]rod, ^[h]twelve thousand stadia; its length, width, and height are equal. ¹⁷ And he measured its wall, ^[i]144 cubits, by ^(R)human ^[j]measurements, which are also ^(S)angelic measurements. ¹⁸ The material of the wall was ^(T)jasper; and the city was ^(U)pure gold, like ^[k]clear ^(V)glass. ^19 (W)The foundation stones of the city wall were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation stone was ^(X)jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, ^(Y)emerald; ²⁰ the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, ^(Z)sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. ²¹ And the twelve ^(AA)gates were twelve ^(AB)pearls; each one of the gates was a single pearl. And the street of the city was ^(AC)pure gold, like transparent ^(AD)glass.

²² I saw ^(AE)no ^[l]temple in it, for the ^(AF)Lord God the Almighty and the ^(AG)Lamb are its ^[m]temple. ²³ And the city ^(AH)has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for ^(AI)the glory of God has illuminated it, and its lamp is the ^(AJ)Lamb. ^24 (AK)The nations will walk by its light, and the ^(AL)kings of the earth ^[n]will bring their glory into it. ²⁵ In the daytime (for ^(AM)there will be no night there) ^(AN)its gates ^(AO)will never be closed; ²⁶ and ^(AP)they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it; ²⁷ and ^(AQ)nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those ^[o]whose names are ^(AR)written in the Lamb’s book of life.