Exodus 33
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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:
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:
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.

a land

Exodus 3:8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, …

Exodus 13:5 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring you into the land of the …

Leviticus 20:24 But I have said to you, You shall inherit their land, and I will …

Numbers 13:27 And they told him, and said, We came to the land where you sent us, …

Numbers 14:8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, …

Numbers 16:13 Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land that …

Joshua 5:6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, …

Jeremiah 11:5 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn to your fathers, to …

for I

Exodus 33:15-17 And he said to him, If your presence go not with me, carry us not up hence…

Exodus 32:10,14 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, …

Numbers 14:12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will …

Deuteronomy 32:26,27 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance …

1 Samuel 2:30 Why the LORD God of Israel said, I said indeed that your house, and …

Jeremiah 18:7-10 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning …

Ezekiel 3:18,19 When I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him …

Ezekiel 33:13-16 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if …

Jonah 3:4,10 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, …

stick-necked

Exodus 32:9 And the LORD said to Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, …

Exodus 34:9 And he said, If now I have found grace in your sight, O LORD, let …

Deuteronomy 9:6-13 Understand therefore, that the LORD your God gives you not this good …

Psalm 78:8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; …

Acts 7:51 You stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always …

lest I

Exodus 23:21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not …

Exodus 32:10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, …

Numbers 16:21,45 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume …

Amos 3:13,14 Hear you, and testify in the house of Jacob, said the Lord GOD, the …

And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
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.
And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.
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.
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.
And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
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.
And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

thou canst not. This is well explained by Rabbi Jehudah, in Sepher Cosri, 'Of that divine glory mentioned in the scripture, there is one degree which the eyes of the prophets were able to explore; another which all the Israelites saw, as the cloud and consuming fire; the third is so bright, and so dazzling, that no mortal is able to comprehend it; but should anyone venture to look on it, his whole frame would be dissolved.' In such inconceivable splendour is the Divine Majesty revealed to the inhabitants of the celestial world, where he is said to 'dwell in the light which no man can approach unto.' By the 'face of God,' therefore, we are to understand that light inaccessible before which angels may stand, but which would be so insufferable to mortal eyes, that no man could see it and live.

Exodus 24:10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it …

Genesis 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God …

Deuteronomy 5:24 And you said, Behold, the LORD our God has showed us his glory and …

Judges 6:22 And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas…

Judges 13:22 And Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

Isaiah 6:5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean …

John 1:18 No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is …

1 Timothy 6:16 Who only has immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can …

Hebrews 1:13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, …

Revelation 1:16,17 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went …

And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:

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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:
And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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