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Exodus 33:15-23

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15 And he said to him, 1"If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here.
16 For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? 2Is it not in your going with us, 3so that we are distinct, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?"
17 And the LORD said to Moses, "This very thing that you have spoken I will do, 4for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name."
18 Moses said, "Please 5show me your glory."
19 And he said, 6"I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name 'The LORD.' And 7I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
20 But," he said, "you cannot see my face, for 8man shall not see me and live."
21 And the LORD said, "Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock,
22 and while my glory passes by I will put you in a 9cleft of the rock, and I will 10cover you with my hand until I have passed by.
23 Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall 11not be seen."
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Exodus 33:15-23 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 33

This chapter informs us, that the Lord refusing to go with the people, only sending an angel with them, they are filled with concern, and troubled, Ex 33:1-6. Moses upon this pitched the tabernacle without the camp, where everyone that sought the Lord went; Moses entered into it himself, and the Lord talked to him in a friendly manner in the cloudy pillar that stood at the door of it, and the people worshipped, every man at his own tent door; all which foreboded good, and tended to reconciliation, Ex 33:7-11. Moses improved the opportunity, and entreats the presence of God to go with them, which was granted, Ex 33:12-17 and that he might have a sight of the glory of God; and this is promised to pass before him, he being put into the cleft of the rock, Ex 33:18-23.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 11

  • 1. [ver. 1-3]
  • 2. Numbers 14:14
  • 3. Exodus 19:5, 6; 1 Kings 8:53
  • 4. ver. 12, 13
  • 5. [ver. 20; 1 Timothy 6:16]
  • 6. Psalms 31:19; Jeremiah 31:14; [Exodus 34:5-7]
  • 7. Cited Romans 9:15
  • 8. Genesis 32:30; Deuteronomy 5:24; Judges 6:22, 23; Judges 13:22; Isaiah 6:5; Revelation 1:17; [Exodus 24:10, 11]
  • 9. Isaiah 2:21
  • 10. Psalms 91:1, 4
  • 11. ver. 20; John 1:18; 1 Timothy 6:16; 1 John 4:12
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.