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Exodus 33:15-23

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15 Then he said to Him, "1If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here.
16 "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 2we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are upon the face of the earth?"
17 The LORD said to Moses, "I will also do this thing of which you have spoken; 3for you have found favor in My sight and I have known you by name."
18 4Then Moses said, "I pray You, show me Your glory!"
19 And He said, "5I Myself will make all My goodness pass before * you, and will proclaim the name of the LORD before you; and 6I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion on whom I will show compassion."
20 But He said, "You cannot * see My face, 7for no man can see Me and live!"
21 Then the LORD said, "Behold, there is a place by Me, and 8you shall stand there on the rock;
22 and it will come about, while My glory is passing by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock and 9cover you with My hand until I have passed by.
23 "Then I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but 10My face shall not 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 10

  • 1. Ps 80:3, 7, 19
  • 2. Leviticus 20:24, 26
  • 3. Exodus 33:12
  • 4. Exodus 33:20-23
  • 5. Exodus 34:6, 7
  • 6. Romans 9:15
  • 7. Isaiah 6:5; 1 Timothy 6:16
  • 8. Psalms 18:2, 46; Psalms 27:5; Psalms 61:2; Psalms 62:7
  • 9. Psalms 91:1, 4; Isaiah 49:2; Isaiah 51:16
  • 10. Exodus 33:20; John 1:18

Footnotes 3

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