¹Then the Lord said to Moses, “Depart, move up from here, you and the people which you brought up out of the land of Egypt to the land about which I swore to Abraham and to Isaac and to Jacob and said, ‘I will give it to your seed.’ ²And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive the Canaanite, the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite ³into a land flowing with milk and honey, for I will not go up in your midst, for you are a stiff-necked people, so that I do not obliterate you on the way.” ⁴When the people heard this bad piece of news, they mourned, and no-one put any ornament on. ⁵Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to the sons of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. In one moment I will come up into your midst and obliterate you. So now, take your ornaments off, and I will know what I will do to you.’ ” ⁶So the sons of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by Mount Horeb. ⁷And Moses took the tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and he called it the tent of contact, and it came to pass that everyone who was seeking the Lord would come out to the tent of contact, which was outside the camp. ⁸And it came to pass, when Moses came out to the tent, that all the people arose, and everyone stood at the entrance to his own tent, and they watched Moses until he had gone into the tent. ⁹And it came to pass, when Moses had gone into the tent, that the column of cloud descended and stood at the entrance to the tent, and he spoke with Moses. ¹⁰And all the people saw the column of cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, and all the people arose and worshipped – each one at the entrance to his tent. ¹¹And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his neighbour, and he returned to the camp, but his attendant Joshua the son of Nun, a lad, did not move from the inside of the tent. ¹²Then Moses said to the Lord, “Look, you say to me, ‘Bring this people up’, but you have not made known to me whom you will send with me, yet you said, ‘I know you by name, and also you have found grace in my sight.’ ¹³So now, please, if I have found grace in your sight, please make your way known to me so that I may know you, in order that I may find grace in your sight. And have in view that this nation is your people.” ¹⁴And he said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” ¹⁵And he said to him, “If your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here, ¹⁶for by what means would it be known then that I have found grace in your sight, I and your people? Is it not in that you go with us, and we are distinguished – I and your people – from every other people which is on the face of the earth?” ¹⁷And the Lord said to Moses, “I will do this thing also, which you have said, for you have found grace in my sight, and I know you by name.” ¹⁸Then he said, “Please show me your glory.” ¹⁹And he said, “I will bring all my goodness upon you, and I will make proclamation in the name of the Lord before you, and I will show grace to whom I will show grace, and I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy.” ²⁰But he said, “You will not be able to see my face, for man does not see me and live.” ²¹And the Lord said, “Here is a place with me, and you shall stand on the rock. ²²And it will come to pass, when my glory passes across, that I will place you on a cleft in the rock, and I will cover you with my hand, until I have passed through. ²³Then I will remove my hand, and you will see my back, but my face will not be seen.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 33: v.19 ↔ Romans 9:15.