The Promise of God’s Presence

¹² Then Moses said to the Lord, “See, ^(A)You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ^(B)‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.’ ¹³ Now therefore, I pray, ^(C)if I have found grace in Your sight, ^(D)show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is ^(E)Your people.”

¹⁴ And He said, ^(F)“My Presence will go with you, and I will give you ^(G)rest.”

¹⁵ Then he said to Him, ^(H)“If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. ¹⁶ For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, ^(I)except You go with us? So we ^(J)shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth.”

¹⁷ So the Lord said to Moses, ^(K)“I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.”

¹⁸ And he said, “Please, show me ^(L)Your glory.”

¹⁹ Then He said, “I will make all My ^(M)goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you. ^(N)I will be gracious to whom I will be ^(O)gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” ²⁰ But He said, “You cannot see My face; for ^(P)no man shall see Me, and live.” ²¹ And the Lord said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. ²² So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you ^(Q)in the cleft of the rock, and will ^(R)cover you with My hand while I pass by. ²³ Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall ^(S)not be seen.”

Moses Makes New Tablets^(T)

34 And the Lord said to Moses, ^(U)“Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and ^(V)I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke. ² So be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me there ^(W)on the top of the mountain. ³ And no man shall ^(X)come up with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain; let neither flocks nor herds feed before that mountain.”

⁴ So he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. Then Moses rose early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him; and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

⁵ Now the Lord descended in the ^(Y)cloud and stood with him there, and ^(Z)proclaimed the name of the Lord. ⁶ And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord ^(AA)God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in ^(AB)goodness and ^(AC)truth, ^7 (AD)keeping mercy for thousands, ^(AE)forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, ^(AF)by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

⁸ So Moses made haste and ^(AG)bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped. ⁹ Then he said, “If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, ^(AH)let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a ^(AI)stiff-necked^[a] people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as ^(AJ)Your inheritance.”