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Therefore the people of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.
The Tent of Meeting
7 Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and
1he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who
2sought the LORD would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.
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Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would rise up, and
3each would stand at his tent door, and watch Moses until he had gone into the tent.
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When Moses entered the tent, the
4pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the LORD would speak with Moses.
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And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, each at his tent door.
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Thus
5the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his
6assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
Moses' Intercession
12 Moses said to the LORD, "See,
7you say to me, 'Bring up this people,' but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said,
8'I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.'
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Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please
9show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is
10your people."
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And he said,
11"My presence will go with you, and
12I will give you rest."
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And he said to him,
13"If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here.
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For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people?
14Is it not in your going with us,
15so that we are distinct, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?"