2 Corinthians 3:13
Good News Translation
We are not like Moses, who had to put a veil over his face so that the people of Israel would not see the brightness fade and disappear.

New Revised Standard Version
not like Moses, who put a veil over his face to keep the people of Israel from gazing at the end of the glory that was being set aside.

Contemporary English Version
We are not like Moses. His face was shining, but he covered it to keep the people of Israel from seeing the brightness fade away.

New American Bible
and not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the Israelites could not look intently at the cessation of what was fading.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And not as Moses put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel might not steadfastly look on the face of that which is made void.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And not as Moses put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel might not steadfastly look on the face of that which is made void.

which.

Exodus 34:33-35 And having done speaking, he put a veil upon his face. . . .

could not.

2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.

to the.

Romans 10:4 For the end of the law is Christ: unto justice to everyone that believeth.

Galatians 3:23,24 But before the faith came, we were kept under the law shut up, unto that faith which was to be revealed. . . .

Ephesians 2:14,15 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and breaking down the middle wall of partition, the enmities in his flesh: . . .

Colossians 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come: but the body is of Christ.

Hebrews 10:1-9 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things, by the selfsame sacrifices which they offer continually every year, can never make the comers thereunto perfect. . . .

Context
The Glory of the New Covenant
12Having therefore such hope, we use much confidence. 13And not as Moses put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel might not steadfastly look on the face of that which is made void. 14But their senses were made dull. For, until this present day, the selfsame veil, in the reading of the old testament, remaineth not taken away (because in Christ it is made void).…
Cross References
Exodus 34:33
And having done speaking, he put a veil upon his face.

Exodus 34:35
And they saw that the face of Moses when he came out was horned, but he covered his face again, if at any time he spoke to them.

Mark 8:25
After that again he laid his hands upon his eyes: and he began to see and was restored, so that he saw all things clearly.

2 Corinthians 3:7
Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon stones, was glorious (so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance), which is made void:

2 Corinthians 3:12
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