Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹⁷ But, they still sinned against Him and provoked the Highest in the wilderness

¹⁸ and tempted God in their hearts, requiring food for their lust.

¹⁹ They also spoke against God, saying, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

²⁰ “Behold, He struck the rock so that the water gushed out and the streams overflowed. Can He also give bread, or prepare flesh for His people?”

⁵² But, He made His people go out like sheep and led them in the wilderness like a flock.

⁵³ Indeed, He carried them out safely, and they did not fear; and the sea covered their enemies.

⁵⁴ And He brought them to the borders of His Sanctuary, to this Mountain which His right hand purchased.

⁵⁵ He also cast out the heathen before them and caused them to fall to the lot of His inheritance; and made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tabernacles.

⁷ Then Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and called it “Ohel-Moed”, or the “Tabernacle of the Congregation”. And when anyone sought the LORD, he went out to the Tabernacle of the Congregation, which was outside the camp.

⁸ And when Moses went out to the Tabernacle, all the people rose up. And every man stood at his tent door and watched Moses until he had gone into the Tabernacle.

⁹ And as soon as Moses had entered into the Tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended and stood at the door of the Tabernacle. And the LORD talked with Moses.

¹⁰ Now, when all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the Tabernacle door, all the people rose up and worshipped (every man in his tent door).

¹¹ And the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Afterward, he turned back toward the camp. But his servant, a young man named Joshua, the son of Nun, did not depart from the Tabernacle.

¹² Then, Moses said to the LORD, “See, You say to me, ‘Lead this people forth.’ And You have not shown me whom You will send with me. You have also said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.’

¹³ “Now, therefore, I pray, if I have found favor in Your sight, show me Your way, so that I may know You, so that I may find grace in Your sight. Also, consider that this nation is Your people.”

¹⁴ And He answered, “My presence shall go with you; and I will give you rest.”

¹⁵ Then he said to Him, “If Your presence does not go with us, do not carry us from here.

¹⁶ “And how, then, shall it be known that I and Your people have found favor in Your sight? Shall it not be when You go with us? So that I and Your people shall be set apart from all the people on Earth?”

¹⁷ And the LORD said to Moses, “I will also do this which You have said. For you have found grace in My sight; and I know you by name.”

¹⁸ Again he said, “I beg You, show me Your Glory.”

¹⁹ And He answered, “I will make all My goodness go before you. And I will proclaim the Name of the LORD before you. For I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy and will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”

²⁰ Furthermore, He said, “You cannot see My face. For no man shall see Me there and live.”

²¹ Also, the LORD said, “Behold, a place by Me. And you shall stand upon the rock.

²² “And while My Glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft of the rock and will cover you with My hand while I pass by.

²³ “Afterward, I will take away My hand and you shall see the back of Me. But My face shall not be seen.”

³⁰ “And after forty years had passed, an Angel of the Lord in a flame of fire appeared to him in a bush, in the wilderness of mount Sinai.

³¹ “And when Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. And as he drew near to examine it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying,

³² ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ Then Moses trembled, and dared not look at it.

³³ “Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off your shoes from your feet. For the place where you stand is Holy Ground.

³⁴ ‘Seeing, I have seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt. And I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. And now, come, and I will send you into Egypt.