Exodus 32:34   (Read all of Exodus 32)

Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin."

Exodus 32:35   (Read all of Exodus 32)

And the Lord struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made.

Exodus 33:1   (Read all of Exodus 33)

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of Egypt, and go up to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your descendants.'

Exodus 33:2   (Read all of Exodus 33)

I will send an angel before you and drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

Exodus 33:3   (Read all of Exodus 33)

Go up to the land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on the way."

Exodus 33:5   (Read all of Exodus 33)

For the Lord had said to Moses, "Tell the Israelites, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go with you even for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments and I will decide what to do with you.' "

Exodus 33:6   (Read all of Exodus 33)

So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments at Mount Horeb.

Exodus 33:7   (Read all of Exodus 33)

Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the "tent of meeting." Anyone inquiring of the Lord would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp.

Exodus 33:8   (Read all of Exodus 33)

And whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose and stood at the entrances to their tents, watching Moses until he entered the tent.

Exodus 33:9   (Read all of Exodus 33)

As Moses went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and stay at the entrance, while the Lord spoke with Moses.

Exodus 33:10   (Read all of Exodus 33)

Whenever the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, they all stood and worshiped, each at the entrance to their tent.

Exodus 33:11   (Read all of Exodus 33)

The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent.

Exodus 33:12   (Read all of Exodus 33)

Moses said to the Lord, "You have been telling me, 'Lead these people,' but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, 'I know you by name and you have found favor with me.'

Exodus 33:13   (Read all of Exodus 33)

If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people."

Exodus 33:15   (Read all of Exodus 33)

Then Moses said to him, "If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here.

Exodus 33:17   (Read all of Exodus 33)

And the Lord said to Moses, "I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name."

Exodus 33:18   (Read all of Exodus 33)

Then Moses said, "Now show me your glory."

Exodus 33:19   (Read all of Exodus 33)

And the Lord said, "I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

Exodus 33:20   (Read all of Exodus 33)

But," he said, "you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live."

Exodus 33:21   (Read all of Exodus 33)

Then the Lord said, "There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock.

Exodus 33:23   (Read all of Exodus 33)

Then I will remove my hand and you will see my back; but my face must not be seen."

Exodus 34:1   (Read all of Exodus 34)

The Lord said to Moses, "Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

Exodus 34:2   (Read all of Exodus 34)

Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai. Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain.

Exodus 34:3   (Read all of Exodus 34)

No one is to come with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks and herds may graze in front of the mountain."