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12 Moses said to the LORD, "See, you say to me, 'Bring up this 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 favor in my sight.'
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Moses said to the LORD, “You have been telling me, ‘Lead these people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, ‘I know you by name and you have found favor with me.’
13 Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people."
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If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people.”
14 And he said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."
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The LORD replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
15 And he said to him, "If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here.
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Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here.
16 For how shall 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 distinct, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?"
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How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the 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, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name."
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And the LORD said to Moses, “I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name.”
18 Moses said, "Please show me your glory."
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Then Moses said, “Now show me your glory.”
19 And he said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name 'The LORD.' And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
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And the LORD said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the LORD, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
20 But," he said, "you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live."
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But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.”
21 And the LORD said, "Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock,
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Then the LORD said, “There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock.
22 and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by.
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When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by.
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