[1] Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you and the people
that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I
swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, `I will give it to your
seed.` [2] I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the
Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and
the Jebusite: [3] to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go
up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume
you in the way." [4] When the people heard this evil news, they mourned:
and no one put on his jewelry. [5] Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children
of Israel, `You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your
midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your
jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you." [6] The children of
Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward. [7]
Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp, far away
from the camp, and he called it "The tent of meeting." It happened that
everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the tent of meeting, which was
outside the camp. [8] It happened that when Moses went out to the Tent,
that all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and
watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent. [9] It happened, when Moses
entered into the Tent, that the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the
door of the Tent, and spoke with Moses. [10] All the people saw the pillar
of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and
worshipped, everyone at their tent door. [11] Yahweh spoke to Moses face to
face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his
servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn`t depart out of the Tent.
[12] Moses said to Yahweh, "Behold, you tell me, `Bring up this people:`
and you haven`t let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said,
`I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.` [13] Now
therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your
ways, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight: and
consider that this nation is your people." [14] He said, "My presence will
go with you, and I will give you rest." [15] He said to him, "If your
presence doesn`t go with me, don`t carry us up from here. [16] For how
would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people?
Isn`t it in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your
people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?" [17]
Yahweh said to Moses, "I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for
you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name." [18] He said,
"Please show me your glory." [19] He said, "I will make all my goodness
pass before you, and will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you. I will be
gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will
show mercy." [20] He said, "You cannot see my face, for man may not see me
and live." [21] Yahweh also said, "Behold, there is a place by me, and you
shall stand on the rock. [22] It will happen, while my glory passes by,
that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand
until I have passed by; [23] then I will take away my hand, and you will
see my back; but my face shall not be seen."
