Exodus 33
Exodus 33:1 Yahveh told Moses, “Go on up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land about which I promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give it.’
Exodus 33:2 I will send an agent in front of you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Exodus 33:3 Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, or else I would consume you on the way, because you are a stiff-necked people.”
Exodus 33:4 When the people heard this discouraging word, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments.
Exodus 33:5 Because Yahveh had told Moses, “Say to the people of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now take off your ornaments, so that I may know what to do with you.'”
Exodus 33:6 Therefore the people of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.
Exodus 33:7 That was when Moses had taken the tent and pitched it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he had called it the conference tent. And everyone who wanted to request something from Yahveh would go out to the conference tent, which was outside the camp.
Exodus 33:8 Whenever Moses had gone out to the tent, all the people would rise up, and each would stand at his tent door, and watch Moses until he had gone into the tent.
Exodus 33:9 When Moses had entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and Yahveh would speak with Moses.
Exodus 33:10 And when all the people had seen the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, each at their tent door.
Exodus 33:11 And Yahveh had spoken to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not leave the tent.
Exodus 33:12 Moses told Yahveh, “See, you told me, ‘Bring up these people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in my sight.’
Exodus 33:13 Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now how you do things, so that I may know you in order to find grace in your sight. Consider that this nation is also your people.”
Exodus 33:14 And he said, “My face will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
Exodus 33:15 And he said to him, “If your face will not go with me, do not bring us up from here.
Exodus 33:16 For how should it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not in your going with us, so that we are different, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the land?”
Exodus 33:17 And Yahveh said to Moses, “This very thing that you have spoken I will do, because you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”
Exodus 33:18 Moses said, “Please show me your glory.”
Exodus 33:19 And he said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘Yahveh.’ And I will show grace to whom I will show grace and will show mercy to whom I will show mercy.
Exodus 33:20 But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, because a man should not see me and live.”
Exodus 33:21 And Yahveh said, “Notice, there is a place by me where you should stand on the rock,
Exodus 33:22 and while my glory passes by, I will put you in a crevice of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by.
Exodus 33:23 Then I will take away my hand, and you should see my back, but my face should not be seen.”
Exodus 33 quotes:
“Moses did not experience the full dosage of God’s Glory. If He had—there is no question about it— Moses would have died on the spot (see Exodus 33:20). God could only reveal to Moses a diluted or lesser degree of Glory. But even so, it was a greater manifestation of Glory than Moses had experienced up to that moment—even though he had been living in the fire for well over forty days.”
Sorge, Bob. Glory : When Heaven Invades Earth. Oasis House, 2000. p. 56.
“There must be a good reason why Joshua and Caleb stayed strong in faith when the crowd chose to act in doubt and unbelief Then the Lord prompted me to read Exodus 33 and I saw what that reason was. I saw that while Moses prayed in the tent of meeting, Joshua stayed right there with him.”
Hammond, Lynne. Renewed in His Presence : Satisfying Your Hunger for God. Harrison House, 2001. p. 63.
Exodus 33 links:
a prayer to be different
Exodus- the presence makes the difference
reverent fellowship
this discouraging word
wanting more
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