Exodus 第33章
The Command to Leave Sinai
1The Lord said to Moses, “Depart; go up from here, you 33:1 ch. 32:7and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To 33:1 ch. 32:13; See Gen. 12:7your offspring I will give it.’
4When the people heard this disastrous word, they 33:4 Num. 14:39mourned, and 33:4 [Ezek. 24:17, 23; 26:16]no one put on his ornaments.
5For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the people of Israel, ‘You are a 33:5 [See ver. 3above] stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would 33:5 ch. 32:12consume you. So now 33:5 [See ver. 4above]take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do with you.’”
6Therefore the people of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.
The Tent of Meeting
7Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and 33:7 ch. 29:42, 43he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who 33:7 Deut. 4:29; 2 Sam. 21:1; 1 Chr. 16:10, 11; Ps. 40:16sought the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.
8Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would rise up, and 33:8 [Num. 16:27]each would stand at his tent door, and watch Moses until he had gone into the tent.
9When Moses entered the tent, the 33:9 See ch. 13:21pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the Lord33:9 Hebrew he would speak with Moses.
10And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, each at his tent door.
11Thus 33:11 Num. 12:8; Deut. 34:10; See Gen. 32:30the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his 33:11 ch. 17:9, 10; 24:13; 32:17assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
Moses’ Intercession
12Moses said to the Lord, “See, 33:12 ch. 32:34you say to me, ‘Bring up this people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, 33:12 ver. 17‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’
13Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please 33:13 Ps. 25:4; [Ps. 103:7] show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is 33:13 Deut. 9:29; [Joel 2:17]your people.”
14And he said, 33:14 Josh. 1:5; Isa. 63:9; See ch. 40:34-38“My presence will go with you, and 33:14 Deut. 3:20; Josh. 21:44; 22:4; 23:1; [Ps. 95:11]I will give you rest.”
15And he said to him, 33:15 [ver. 1-3]“If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here.
16For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? 33:16 Num. 14:14Is it not in your going with us, 33:16 ch. 19:5, 6; 1 Kgs. 8:53so that we are distinct, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?”
17And the Lord said to Moses, “This very thing that you have spoken I will do, 33:17 ver. 12, 13for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”
18Moses said, “Please 33:18 [ver. 20; 1 Tim. 6:16]show me your glory.”
19And he said, 33:19 Ps. 31:19; Jer. 31:14; [ch. 34:5-7] “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And 33:19 Cited Rom. 9:15I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
20But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for 33:20 Gen. 32:30; Deut. 5:24; Judg. 6:22, 23; 13:22; Isa. 6:5; Rev. 1:17; [ch. 24:10, 11]man shall not see me and live.”
21And the Lord said, “Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock,
22and while my glory passes by I will put you in a 33:22 Isa. 2:21cleft of the rock, and I will 33:22 Ps. 91:1, 4cover you with my hand until I have passed by.
23Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall 33:23 ver. 20; John 1:18; 1 Tim. 6:16; 1 John 4:12not be seen.”
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