Exodus 33:12
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Exo 33:12
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Then Moses said to the LORD, "See, You say to me, `Bring up this people!' But You Yourself have not let me know whom You will send with me. Moreover, You have said, `I have known you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.'
Exo 33:13
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~"Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, let me know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. Consider too, that this nation is Your people."
Exo 33:14
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And He said, "My presence shall go {with you,} and I will give you rest."
Exo 33:15
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Then he said to Him, "If Your presence does not go {with us,} do not lead us up from here.
Exo 33:16
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~"For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the {other} people who are upon the face of the earth?"
Exo 33:17
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The LORD said to Moses, "I will also do this thing of which you have spoken; for you have found favor in My sight and I have known you by name."
Exo 33:18
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Then Moses said, "I pray You, show me Your glory!"
Exo 33:19
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And He said, "I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the LORD before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion on whom I will show compassion."
Exo 33:20
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But He said, "You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!"
Exo 33:21
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Then the LORD said, "Behold, there is a place by Me, and you shall stand {there} on the rock;
Exo 33:22
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and it will come about, while My glory is passing by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by.
Exo 33:23
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~"Then I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen."
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