Exodus 33:15-17

15 Toen zeide hij tot Hem: Indien Uw aangezicht niet medegaan zal, doe ons van hier niet optrekken!

16 Want waarbij zou nu bekend worden, dat ik genade gevonden heb in Uw ogen, ik en Uw volk? Is het niet daarbij, dat Gij met ons gaat? Alzo zullen wij afgezonderd worden, ik en Uw volk, van alle volk, dat op den aardbodem is.

17 Toen zeide de HEERE tot Mozes: Ook deze zelfde zaak, die gij gesproken hebt, zal Ik doen, dewijl gij genade gevonden hebt in Mijn ogen, en Ik u bij name ken.

Exodus 33:15-17 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.