Shmot (Exodus) - Chapter 33

33:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, "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 Ya'aqub, saying, 'I will give it to your seed.' 33:2 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 Yebusite: 33:3 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."

33:4 When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: and no one put on his jewellery.

33:5 Mar-Yah said to Mosha, "Tell the B'nai Yisrael, '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 jewellery from you, that I may know what to do to you.'"

33:6 The B'nai Yisrael stripped themselves of their jewellery from Mount Horeb onward. 33:7 Now Mosha used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it "The Tabernacle." It happened that everyone who sought Mar-Yah went out to the Tabernacle, which was outside the camp. 33:8 It happened that when Mosha went out to the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Mosha, until he had gone into the Tent. 33:9 It happened, when Mosha entered into the Tent, that the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and spoke with Mosha. 33:10 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. 33:11 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Yoshua, the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart out of the Tent.

33:12 Mosha said to Mar-Yah, "Behold, you tell me, 'Bring up this people:' and you have not permitted me to know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favour in my sight.' 33:13 Now therefore, if I have found favour in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you, so that I may find favour in your sight: and consider that this nation is your people."

33:14 He said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."

33:15 He said to him, "If your presence does not go with me, do not carry us up from here. 33:16 For how would people know that I have found favour in your sight, I and your people? Is it not in your going with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?"

33:17 Mar-Yah said to Mosha, "I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favour in my sight, and I know you by name."

33:18 He said, "Please show me your glory."

33:19 He said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of Mar-Yah before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy." 33:20 He said, "You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live." 33:21 Mar-Yah also said, "Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock. 33:22 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; 33:23 then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen."