CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Exodus 33 NET Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/33.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/exodus/33-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NET Bible</a> > Exodus 33</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/32.htm" title="Exodus 32">◄</a> Exodus 33 <a href="../exodus/34.htm" title="Exodus 34">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NET Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/net/esv/exodus/33.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/33-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> said to Moses, “Go up from here, you and the people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/33-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/33-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you on the way.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/33-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>When the people heard this troubling word they mourned; no one put on his ornaments. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/33-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up among you for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments, that I may know what I should do to you.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/33-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments by Mount Horeb.</p> <p class="title">The Presence of the Lord</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/33-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Moses took the tent and pitched it outside the camp, at a good distance from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. Anyone seeking the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> would go out to the tent of meeting that was outside the camp.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/33-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And when Moses went out to the tent, all the people would get up and stand at the entrance to their tents and watch Moses until he entered the tent. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/33-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> would speak with Moses. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/33-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>When all the people would see the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people, each one at the entrance of his own tent, would rise and worship. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/33-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> would speak to Moses face to face, the way a person speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his servant, Joshua son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the tent.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/33-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Moses said to the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, “See, you have been saying to me, ‘Bring this people up,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. But you said, ‘I know you by name, and also you have found favor in my sight.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/33-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Now if I have found favor in your sight, show me your way, that I may know you, that I may continue to find favor in your sight. And see that this nation is your people.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/33-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/33-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Moses said to him, “If your presence does not go with us, do not take us up from here. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/33-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For how will it be known then that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not by your going with us, so that we will be distinguished, I and your people, from all the people who are on the face of the earth?”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/33-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have requested, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/33-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Moses said, “Show me your glory.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/33-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> said, “I will make all my goodness pass before your face, and I will proclaim the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> by name before you; I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/33-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But he added, “You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/33-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> said, “Here is a place by me; you will station yourself on a rock. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/33-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and will cover you with my hand while I pass by. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/33-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back, but my face must not be seen.”</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. All rights reserved.</a><br /><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../exodus/32.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Exodus 32"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Exodus 32" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../exodus/34.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Exodus 34"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Exodus 34" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/exodus/33-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>