6848. And Moses covered his faces. That this signifies that the interiors were guarded, is evident from the signification of the “faces,” as being the interiors (see n. 1999, 2434, 3527, 4066, 4796, 4797, 5102). That “to cover” denotes to guard, follows from the connection in the internal sense, for it is said that “he covered his faces because he was afraid to look upon God,” and by this is signified lest the interiors should be injured by the presence of the Divine Itself. How this is will be told in what follows.