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And the
Lord said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence,
thou and the people which thou hast brought up
out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I
sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob,
saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:
02 And I will send an angel before thee;
and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite,
and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite,
and the Jebusite:
03 Unto a land flowing with milk and honey:
for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for
thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume
thee in the way.
04 And when the people heard these evil
tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him
his ornaments.
05 For the Lord had said unto Moses, Say
unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked
people: I will come up into the midst of thee in
a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off
thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to
do unto thee.
06 And the children of Israel stripped
themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.
07 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.
08 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.
09 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.
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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.
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