¹⁸ Moses said, “Please ^(A)show me your glory.” ¹⁹ And he said, ^(B)“I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And ^(C)I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. ²⁰ But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for ^(D)man shall not see me and live.”

¹¹ Thus ^(A)the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his ^(B)assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.