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Yahweh spoke to Moses , "Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt , to the land of which I swore to Abraham , to Isaac , and to Jacob , saying, 'I will give it to your seed .'
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I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite , and the Perizzite, the Hivite , and the Jebusite:
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to a land flowing with milk and honey : for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way ."
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When the people heard this evil news, they mourned : and no one put on his jewelry.
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Yahweh said to Moses , "Tell the children of Israel , 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.'"
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The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.
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Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp , far away from the camp , and he called it "The tent of Meeting." It happened that everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp .
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It happened that when Moses went out to the Tent , that all the people rose up , and stood, everyone at their Tent door , and watched Moses , until he had gone into the Tent .
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It happened, when Moses entered into the Tent , that the pillar of cloud descended , stood at the door of the Tent , and spoke with Moses .
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All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent , and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their Tent door .
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Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face , as a man speaks to his friend . He turned again into the camp , but his servant Joshua , the son of Nun, a young man , didn't depart out of the Tent .
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Moses said to Yahweh , "Behold, you tell me, 'Bring up this people:' and you haven 't 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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Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight , please show me now your ways , that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight : and consider that this nation is your people ."
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He said , "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."
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He said to him, "If your presence doesn't go with me, don't carry us up from here.
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For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight , I and your people? Isn't it in that you go with us , so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?"
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Yahweh said to Moses , "I will do this thing also that you have spoken ; for you have found favor in my sight , and I know you by name ."
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He said , "Please show me your glory."
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He said , "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy."
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He said , "You cannot see my face , for man may not see me and live."
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Yahweh also said , "Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock .
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It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock , and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;
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then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen ."