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You and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt are to go up from here to the land about which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: I will give it to your descendants.<a id="ren02033001-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02033001-a">a</a> <span id="v02033002" class="ver">2</span>Driving out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, I will send an angel before you<a id="ren02033002-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02033002-b">b</a> <span id="v02033003" class="ver">3</span>to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I myself will not go up in your company, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise I might consume you on the way. <span id="v02033004" class="ver">4</span>When the people heard this painful news, they mourned, and no one wore any ornaments.</p> <p><span id="v02033005" class="ver">5</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> spoke to Moses: Speak to the Israelites: You are a stiff-necked people. Were I to go up in your company even for a moment, I would destroy you. Now off with your ornaments! Let me think what to do with you. <span id="v02033006" class="ver">6</span>So, from Mount Horeb onward, the Israelites stripped off their ornaments.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Moses’ Intimacy with God.</span> <span id="v02033007" class="ver">7</span>Moses used to pitch a tent<a id="ren02033007-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02033007-c">c</a> outside the camp at some distance. It was called the tent of meeting. Anyone who wished to consult the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp. <span id="v02033008" class="ver">8</span>Whenever Moses went out to the tent, the people would all rise and stand at the entrance of their own tents, watching Moses until he entered the tent. <span id="v02033009" class="ver">9</span>As Moses entered the tent, the column of cloud would come down and stand at its entrance while the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> spoke with Moses. <span id="v02033010" class="ver">10</span>On seeing the column of cloud stand at the entrance of the tent, all the people would rise and bow down at the entrance of their own tents. <span id="v02033011" class="ver">11</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> used to speak to Moses face to face,<a id="ren02033011-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02033011-d">d</a> as a person speaks to a friend. Moses would then return to the camp, but his young assistant, Joshua, son of Nun, never left the tent. <span id="v02033012" class="ver">12</span>Moses said to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, “See, you are telling me: Lead this people.<a id="ren02033012-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02033012-e">e</a> But you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said: You are my intimate friend;<a id="rfn02033012-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn02033012-1">*</a> You have found favor with me. <span id="v02033013" class="ver">13</span>Now, if I have found favor with you, please let me know your ways so that, in knowing you, I may continue to find favor with you. See, this nation is indeed your own people. <span id="v02033014" class="ver">14</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> answered: I myself<a id="rfn02033014-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn02033014-1">*</a> will go along, to give you rest. <span id="v02033015" class="ver">15</span>Moses replied, “If you are not going yourself, do not make us go up from here. <span id="v02033016" class="ver">16</span>For how can it be known that I and your people have found favor with you, except by your going with us? Then we, your people and I, will be singled out from every other people on the surface of the earth.” <span id="v02033017" class="ver">17</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> said to Moses: This request, too, which you have made, I will carry out, because you have found favor with me and you are my intimate friend.</p> <p><span id="v02033018" class="ver">18</span>Then Moses said, “Please let me see your glory!” <span id="v02033019" class="ver">19</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> answered: I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim my name, “<span class="tetr">Lord</span>,” before you; I who show favor to whom I will, I who grant mercy to whom I will.<a id="ren02033019-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02033019-f">f</a> <span id="v02033020" class="ver">20</span>But you cannot see my face,<a id="ren02033020-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02033020-g">g</a> for no one can see me and live.<a id="rfn02033020-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn02033020-1">*</a> <span id="v02033021" class="ver">21</span>Here, continued the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, is a place near me where you shall station yourself on the rock. <span id="v02033022" class="ver">22</span>When my glory passes I will set you in the cleft of the rock and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by. <span id="v02033023" class="ver">23</span>Then I will remove my hand, so that you may see my back; but my face may not be seen.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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