Exodus 33:16

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?” ¹ 

Exodus 34:9

34:9 and said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord ²  go among us, for we ³  are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

[33:16]  ¹ sn See W. Brueggemann, “The Crisis and Promise of Presence in Israel,” HBT 1 (1979): 47-86; and N. M. Waldman, “God’s Ways – A Comparative Note,” JQR 70 (1979): 67-70.

[34:9]  ² tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” two times here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[34:9]  ³ tn Heb “it is.” Hebrew uses the third person masculine singular pronoun here in agreement with the noun “people.”