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Text -- Exodus 33:1-20 (NET)

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33:1 The Lord said to Moses, “Go up from here, you and the people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ 33:2 I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 33:3 Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you on the way.” 33:4 When the people heard this troubling word they mourned; no one put on his ornaments. 33:5 For the Lord had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up among you for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments, that I may know what I should do to you.’” 33:6 So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments by Mount Horeb.
The Presence of the Lord
33:7 Moses took the tent and pitched it outside the camp, at a good distance from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. Anyone seeking the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting that was outside the camp. 33:8 And when Moses went out to the tent, all the people would get up and stand at the entrance to their tents and watch Moses until he entered the tent. 33:9 And whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the Lord would speak with Moses. 33:10 When all the people would see the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people, each one at the entrance of his own tent, would rise and worship. 33:11 The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, the way a person speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his servant, Joshua son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the tent. 33:12 Moses said to the Lord, “See, you have been saying to me, ‘Bring this people up,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. But you said, ‘I know you by name, and also you have found favor in my sight.’ 33:13 Now if I have found favor in your sight, show me your way, that I may know you, that I may continue to find favor in your sight. And see that this nation is your people.” 33:14 And the Lord said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” 33:15 And Moses said to him, “If your presence does not go with us, do not take us up from here. 33:16 For how will it be known then that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not by your going with us, so that we will be distinguished, I and your people, from all the people who are on the face of the earth?” 33:17 The Lord said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have requested, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.” 33:18 And Moses said, “Show me your glory.” 33:19 And the Lord said, “I will make all my goodness pass before your face, and I will proclaim the Lord by name before you; I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy.” 33:20 But he added, “You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live.”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Abraham a son of Terah; the father of Isaac; ancestor of the Jewish nation.,the son of Terah of Shem
 · Amorites members of a pre-Israel Semitic tribe from Mesopotamia
 · Canaanite residents of the region of Canaan
 · Egypt descendants of Mizraim
 · Hittite a person/people living in the land of Syro-Palestine
 · Hivite a person/people descended from Canaan son of Ham son of Noah
 · Horeb a mountain; the place where the law was given to Moses
 · Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel
 · Jacob the second so of a pair of twins born to Isaac and Rebeccaa; ancestor of the 12 tribes of Israel,the nation of Israel,a person, male,son of Isaac; Israel the man and nation
 · Jebusite resident(s) of the town of Jebus (Jerusalem)
 · Joshua a son of Eliezer; the father of Er; an ancestor of Jesus,the son of Nun and successor of Moses,son of Nun of Ephraim; successor to Moses,a man: owner of the field where the ark stopped,governor of Jerusalem under King Josiah,son of Jehozadak; high priest in the time of Zerubbabel
 · Moses a son of Amram; the Levite who led Israel out of Egypt and gave them The Law of Moses,a Levite who led Israel out of Egypt and gave them the law
 · Nun son of Elishama; father of Joshua (Ephraim), Moses' aide
 · Perizzite a people of ancient Canaan in the later territory of Ephraim


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Tabernacle | TABERNACLE, B | Revelation | PENTATEUCH, 2B | Moses | God | Israel | Prayer | Boldness | GOD, 2 | Communion | PENTATEUCH, 2A | PRIESTS AND LEVITES | Glory | Cloud | TABERNACLE, A | Intercession | SALVATION | Fellowship | PILLAR | more
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NET Notes: Exo 33:1 Heb “seed.”

NET Notes: Exo 33:2 See T. Ishida, “The Structure and Historical Implications of Lists of Pre-Israelite Nations,” Bib (1979): 461-90.

NET Notes: Exo 33:3 The clause is “lest I consume you.” It would go with the decision not to accompany them: “I will not go up with you…lest I con...

NET Notes: Exo 33:4 The people would rather have risked divine discipline than to go without Yahweh in their midst. So they mourned, and they took off the ornaments. Such...

NET Notes: Exo 33:5 This last clause begins with the interrogative “what,” but it is used here as an indirect interrogative. It introduces a noun clause, the ...

NET Notes: Exo 33:7 The form is the Piel participle. The seeking here would indicate seeking an oracle from Yahweh or seeking to find a resolution for some difficulty (as...

NET Notes: Exo 33:8 This is a temporal clause using an infinitive construct with a suffixed subject.

NET Notes: Exo 33:9 Both verbs, “stand” and “speak,” are perfect tenses with vav (ו) consecutive.

NET Notes: Exo 33:10 All the main verbs in this verse are perfect tenses continuing the customary sequence (see GKC 337 §112.kk). The idea is that the people would ge...

NET Notes: Exo 33:11 Moses did not live in the tent. But Joshua remained there most of the time to guard the tent, it seems, lest any of the people approach it out of curi...

NET Notes: Exo 33:12 That is, “chosen you.”

NET Notes: Exo 33:13 The verb “see” (an imperative) is a request for God to acknowledge Israel as his people by providing the divine leadership needed. So his ...

NET Notes: Exo 33:14 The expression certainly refers to the peace of mind and security of knowing that God was with them. But the expression came to mean “settle the...

NET Notes: Exo 33:15 Heb “from this.”

NET Notes: Exo 33:16 See W. Brueggemann, “The Crisis and Promise of Presence in Israel,” HBT 1 (1979): 47-86; and N. M. Waldman, “God’s Ways –...

NET Notes: Exo 33:17 The verb in this place is a preterite with the vav (ו) consecutive, judging from the pointing. It then follows in sequence the verb “you h...

NET Notes: Exo 33:18 Moses now wanted to see the glory of Yahweh, more than what he had already seen and experienced. He wanted to see God in all his majesty. The LXX chos...

NET Notes: Exo 33:19 God declares his mercy and grace in similar terms to his earlier self-revelation (“I am that I am”): “I will be gracious to whom I w...

NET Notes: Exo 33:20 Gesenius notes that sometimes a negative statement takes the place of a conditional clause; here it is equal to “if a man sees me he does not li...

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