King James VersionExodus33

Exodus

1 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: 2 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: 3 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. 4 And when the peo­ple heard these evil tid­ings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his or­na­ments. 5 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. 6 And the chil­dren of Is­rael stripped them­selves of their or­na­ments by the mount Horeb. 7 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. 8 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. 9 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. 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.