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Exodus 33:7-34:16
New International Version
Exodus 33:7-34:16
New International Version
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 New Stone Tablets
34 The Lord said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones,(AB) and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets,(AC) which you broke.(AD) 2 Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai.(AE) Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain. 3 No one is to come with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain;(AF) not even the flocks and herds may graze in front of the mountain.”
4 So Moses chiseled(AG) out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up Mount Sinai early in the morning, as the Lord had commanded him; and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands.(AH) 5 Then the Lord came down in the cloud(AI) and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord.(AJ) 6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate(AK) and gracious God, slow to anger,(AL) abounding in love(AM) and faithfulness,(AN) 7 maintaining love to thousands,(AO) and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.(AP) Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished;(AQ) he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”(AR)
8 Moses bowed to the ground at once and worshiped. 9 “Lord,” he said, “if I have found favor(AS) in your eyes, then let the Lord go with us.(AT) Although this is a stiff-necked(AU) people, forgive our wickedness and our sin,(AV) and take us as your inheritance.”(AW)
10 Then the Lord said: “I am making a covenant(AX) with you. Before all your people I will do wonders(AY) never before done in any nation in all the world.(AZ) The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the Lord, will do for you. 11 Obey what I command(BA) you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.(BB) 12 Be careful not to make a treaty(BC) with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare(BD) among you. 13 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.[a](BE) 14 Do not worship any other god,(BF) for the Lord, whose name(BG) is Jealous, is a jealous God.(BH)
15 “Be careful not to make a treaty(BI) with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute(BJ) themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices.(BK) 16 And when you choose some of their daughters as wives(BL) for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods,(BM) they will lead your sons to do the same.
Footnotes
- Exodus 34:13 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
Exodus 33:7-34:16
King James Version
Exodus 33:7-34:16
King James Version
7 And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the Lord went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.
8 And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.
9 And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.
10 And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.
11 And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
12 And Moses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
14 And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.
16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
17 And the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
18 And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
21 And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
34 And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
5 And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.
6 And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
9 And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
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