Exodus 33
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Then the LORD said to Moses, "Depart and go up from here, you a and the people whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, b 'To your descendants I will give it.'
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c "And I will send My Angel before you, d and I will drive out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
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"Go up e to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, lest f I consume you on the way, for you are a g stiff-necked people."
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And when the people heard this bad news, h they mourned, i and no one put on his ornaments.
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For the LORD had said to Moses, "Say to the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. I could come up into your midst in one moment and consume you. Now therefore, take off your ornaments, that I may j know what to do to you.' "
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So the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by Mount Horeb.
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Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and k called it the tabernacle of meeting. And it came to pass that everyone who l sought the LORD went out to the tabernacle of meeting which was outside the camp.
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So it was, whenever Moses went out to the tabernacle, that all the people rose, and each man stood m at his tent door and watched Moses until he had gone into the tabernacle.
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And it came to pass, when Moses entered the tabernacle, that the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the LORD n talked with Moses.
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All the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the tabernacle door, and all the people rose and o worshiped, each man in his tent door.
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So p the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but q his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.
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Then Moses said to the LORD, "See, r 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, s 'I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.'
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"Now therefore, I pray, t if I have found grace in Your sight, u show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is v Your people."
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And He said, w "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you x rest."
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Then he said to Him, y "If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here.
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"For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, z except You go with us? So we a shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth."
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So the LORD said to Moses, b "I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name."
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And he said, "Please, show me c Your glory."
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Then He said, "I will make all My d goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. e I will be gracious to whom I will be f gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."
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But He said, "You cannot see My face; for g no man shall see Me, and live."
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And the LORD said, "Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock.
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"So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you h in the cleft of the rock, and will i cover you with My hand while I pass by.
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"Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall j not be seen."
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Exodus 32:1
Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.
Exodus 32:7
And the LORD said to Moses, "Go, get down! For your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves.
Exodus 32:13
"Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven; and all this land that I have spoken of I give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.'"
Joshua 3:17
Then the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan; and all Israel crossed over on dry ground, until all the people had crossed completely over the Jordan.
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Genesis 12:7
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
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Exodus 32:34
"Now therefore, go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, My Angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit for punishment, I will visit punishment upon them for their sin."
Joshua 5:14
So He said, "No, but as Commander of the army of the LORD I have now come." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and said to Him, "What does my Lord say to His servant?
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Exodus 23:27 - 31
I will send My fear before you, I will cause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
Joshua 24:11
Then you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho. And the men of Jericho fought against you - also the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. But I delivered them into your hand.
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Exodus 3:8
So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
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Numbers 16:21
"Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment."
Numbers 16:45
Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment." And they fell on their faces.
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Exodus 32:9
And the LORD said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people!
Exodus 33:5
For the LORD had said to Moses, "Say to the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. I could come up into your midst in one moment and consume you. Now therefore, take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do to you.'
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Numbers 14:1
So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.
Numbers 14:39
Then Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.
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Ezra 9:3
So when I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked out some of the hair of my head and beard, and sat down astonished.
Esther 4:1
When Mordecai learned all that had happened, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city. He cried out with a loud and bitter cry.
Esther 4:4
So Esther's maids and eunuchs came and told her, and the queen was deeply distressed. Then she sent garments to clothe Mordecai and take his sackcloth away from him, but he would not accept them.
Ezekiel 24:17
"Sigh in silence, make no mourning for the dead; bind your turban on your head, and put your sandals on your feet; do not cover your lips, and do not eat man's bread of sorrow."
Ezekiel 24:23
Your turbans shall be on your heads and your sandals on your feet; you shall neither mourn nor weep, but you shall pine away in your iniquities and mourn with one another.
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Psalms 139:23
Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties.
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Exodus 29:42
This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the LORD, where I will meet you to speak with you.
Exodus 29:43
And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by My glory.
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Deuteronomy 4:29
But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
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Numbers 16:27
So they got away from around the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the door of their tents, with their wives, their sons, and their little children.
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Exodus 25:22
And there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the Testimony, about everything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel.
Exodus 31:18
And when He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.
Psalms 99:7
He spoke to them in the cloudy pillar; They kept His testimonies and the ordinance He gave them.
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Exodus 4:31
So the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel and that He had looked on their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
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Numbers 12:8
I speak with him face to face, Even plainly, and not in dark sayings; And he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid To speak against My servant Moses?
Deuteronomy 34:10
But since then there has not arisen in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face.
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Exodus 24:13
So Moses arose with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up to the mountain of God.
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Exodus 3:10
"Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."
Exodus 32:34
"Now therefore, go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, My Angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit for punishment, I will visit punishment upon them for their sin."
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Exodus 33:17
So the LORD said to Moses, "I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.
John 10:14
I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.
John 10:15
As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
2 Timothy 2:19
Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: "The Lord knows those who are His," and, "Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
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Exodus 34:9
Then he said, "If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.
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Psalms 25:4
Show me Your ways, O LORD; Teach me Your paths.
Psalms 27:11
Teach me Your way, O LORD, And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies.
Psalms 86:11
Teach me Your way, O LORD; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name.
Psalms 119:33
Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes, And I shall keep it to the end.
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Exodus 3:7
And the LORD said: "I have surely seen the oppr...
Exodus 3:10
"Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Ph...
Exodus 5:1
Afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Phar...
Exodus 32:12
Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, 'He br...
Exodus 32:14
So the LORD relented from the harm which He sai...
Deuteronomy 9:26
Therefore I prayed to the LORD, and said: 'O Lo...
Deuteronomy 9:29
'Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance,...
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Exodus 3:12
So He said, "I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.
Deuteronomy 4:37
And because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them; and He brought you out of Egypt with His Presence, with His mighty power.
Isaiah 63:9
In all their affliction He was afflicted, And the Angel of His Presence saved them; In His love and in His pity He redeemed them; And He bore them and carried them All the days of old.
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Deuteronomy 12:10
But when you cross over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety.
Deuteronomy 25:19
Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You shall not forget.
Joshua 21:44
The LORD gave them rest all around, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers. And not a man of all their enemies stood against them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.
Joshua 22:4
And now the LORD your God has given rest to your brethren, as He promised them; now therefore, return and go to your tents and to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side of the Jordan.
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Exodus 33:3
" Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people."
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Numbers 14:14
And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, LORD, are among these people; that You, LORD, are seen face to face and Your cloud stands above them, and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
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Exodus 34:10
And He said: "Behold, I make a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD. For it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
Deuteronomy 4:7
For what great nation is there that has God so near to it, as the LORD our God is to us, for whatever reason we may call upon Him?
Deuteronomy 4:34
Or did God ever try to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
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James 5:16
Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
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Exodus 24:16
Now the glory of the LORD rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
Exodus 24:17
The sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
1 Timothy 6:16
Who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.
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Exodus 34:6
And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth.
Exodus 34:7
"keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation."
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Romans 9:15
For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.
Romans 9:16
So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
Romans 9:18
Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.
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Romans 4:4
Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt.
Romans 4:16
Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all
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Genesis 32:30
So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: "For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
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Song of Solomon 2:14
"O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, In the secret places of the cliff, Let me see your face, Let me hear your voice; For your voice is sweet, And your face is lovely."
Isaiah 2:21
To go into the clefts of the rocks, And into the crags of the rugged rocks, From the terror of the LORD And the glory of His majesty, When He arises to shake the earth mightily.
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Psalms 91:1
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Psalms 91:4
He shall cover you with His feathers, And under His wings you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and buckler.
Isaiah 49:2
And He has made My mouth like a sharp sword; In the shadow of His hand He has hidden Me, And made Me a polished shaft; In His quiver He has hidden Me.
Isaiah 51:16
And I have put My words in your mouth; I have covered you with the shadow of My hand, That I may plant the heavens, Lay the foundations of the earth, And say to Zion, 'You are My people.'
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Exodus 33:20
But He said, "You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.
John 1:18
No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
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