The Tent of Meeting

⁷ Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the “tent of meeting.”^(A) Anyone inquiring^(B) of the Lord would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp. ⁸ And whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose and stood at the entrances to their tents,^(C) watching Moses until he entered the tent. ⁹ As Moses went into the tent, the pillar of cloud^(D) would come down and stay at the entrance, while the Lord spoke^(E) with Moses. ¹⁰ Whenever the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, they all stood and worshiped, each at the entrance to their tent.^{(F) 11} The Lord would speak to Moses face to face,^(G) as one speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua^(H) son of Nun did not leave the tent.

Moses and the Glory of the Lord

¹² Moses said to the Lord, “You have been telling me, ‘Lead these people,’^(I) but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, ‘I know you by name^(J) and you have found favor^(K) with me.’ ¹³ If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways^(L) so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people.”^(M)

¹⁴ The Lord replied, “My Presence^(N) will go with you, and I will give you rest.”^(O)

¹⁵ Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence^(P) does not go with us, do not send us up from here. ¹⁶ How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us?^(Q) What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?”^(R)

¹⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, “I will do the very thing you have asked,^(S) because I am pleased with you and I know you by name.”^(T)

¹⁸ Then Moses said, “Now show me your glory.”^(U)

¹⁹ And the Lord said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass^(V) in front of you, and I will proclaim my name,^(W) the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.^{(X) 20} But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one may see^(Y) me and live.”

²¹ Then the Lord said, “There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock. ²² When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock^(Z) and cover you with my hand^(AA) until I have passed by. ²³ Then I will remove my hand and you will see my back; but my face must not be seen.”

The Ten Commandments^(A)

5 Moses summoned all Israel and said:

Hear, Israel, the decrees and laws^(B) I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them. ² The Lord our God made a covenant^(C) with us at Horeb.^{(D) 3} It was not with our ancestors^[a] that the Lord made this covenant, but with us,^(E) with all of us who are alive here today.^{(F) 4} The Lord spoke^(G) to you face to face^(H) out of the fire^(I) on the mountain. ⁵ (At that time I stood between^(J) the Lord and you to declare to you the word of the Lord, because you were afraid^(K) of the fire and did not go up the mountain.) And he said:

Jesus Reinstates Peter

¹⁵ When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?”

“Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I love you.”^(A)

Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.”^(B)

¹⁶ Again Jesus said, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”

He answered, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”

Jesus said, “Take care of my sheep.”^(C)

¹⁷ The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”

Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?”^(D) He said, “Lord, you know all things;^(E) you know that I love you.”

Jesus said, “Feed my sheep.^{(F) 18} Very truly I tell you, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.” ¹⁹ Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death^(G) by which Peter would glorify God.^(H) Then he said to him, “Follow me!”^(I)

²⁰ Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved^(J) was following them. (This was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and had said, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”)^{(K) 21} When Peter saw him, he asked, “Lord, what about him?”

²² Jesus answered, “If I want him to remain alive until I return,^(L) what is that to you? You must follow me.”^{(M) 23} Because of this, the rumor spread among the believers^(N) that this disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say that he would not die; he only said, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you?”

²⁴ This is the disciple who testifies to these things^(O) and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.^(P)

²⁵ Jesus did many other things as well.^(Q) If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

The New Jerusalem, the Bride of the Lamb

⁹ One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues^(A) came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride,^(B) the wife of the Lamb.” ¹⁰ And he carried me away^(C) in the Spirit^(D) to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.^{(E) 11} It shone with the glory of God,^(F) and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper,^(G) clear as crystal.^{(H) 12} It had a great, high wall with twelve gates,^(I) and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.^{(J) 13} There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west. ¹⁴ The wall of the city had twelve foundations,^(K) and on them were the names of the twelve apostles^(L) of the Lamb.

¹⁵ The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod^(M) of gold to measure the city, its gates^(N) and its walls. ¹⁶ The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia^[a] in length, and as wide and high as it is long. ¹⁷ The angel measured the wall using human^(O) measurement, and it was 144 cubits^[b] thick.^{[c] 18} The wall was made of jasper,^(P) and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass.^{(Q) 19} The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone.^(R) The first foundation was jasper,^(S) the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, ²⁰ the fifth onyx, the sixth ruby,^(T) the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.^{[d] 21} The twelve gates^(U) were twelve pearls,^(V) each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.^(W)

²² I did not see a temple^(X) in the city, because the Lord God Almighty^(Y) and the Lamb^(Z) are its temple. ²³ The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God^(AA) gives it light,^(AB) and the Lamb^(AC) is its lamp. ²⁴ The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.^{(AD) 25} On no day will its gates^(AE) ever be shut,^(AF) for there will be no night there.^{(AG) 26} The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it.^{(AH) 27} Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful,^(AI) but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.^(AJ)