And the Lord said to Moses: Go, go up from here, you and your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, into the land which I swore to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, saying: To your seed I will give it.
And I will bring you into a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up with you, because you are a stiff-necked people, lest I utterly consume you on the way.
And the Lord said to the sons of Israel: You are a stiff-necked people. See that I do not bring another plague upon you and utterly consume you. Now therefore take off your glorious robes and your ornament, and I will show you what I will do to you.
And Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp; and it was called the tent of testimony. And it came to pass that everyone who sought the Lord went out to the tent outside the camp.
And whenever Moses went into the tent outside the camp, all the people stood watching, each at the doors of his own tent, and they gazed after Moses as he departed, until he entered into the tent.
And all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the door of the tent; and all the people stood and worshipped, each from the door of his own tent.
And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as if one were to speak to his own friend. And he would depart to the camp; but his attendant Joshua son of Naue, a young man, did not go out from the tent.
And Moses said to the Lord: Behold, you say to me: Lead up this people; but you have not made known to me whom you will send along with me. Yet you said to me: I know you above all, and you have favour with me.
If then I have found favour before you, reveal yourself to me, that I may see you knowingly, so that I may be one who has found favour before you; and that I may know that this great nation is your people.
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καὶλέγειαὐτὸςπροπορεύσομαίσουκαὶκαταπαύσωσε
主說:我必親自在你前面行,使你得安息。
And he says: I myself will go before you, and I will give you rest.
And how shall it truly be known that I have found favour with you, both I and your people, except by your going along with us? So shall I and your people be glorified above all the nations that are on the earth.
And he said: I will pass by before you in my glory, and I will call by my name, Lord, before you; and I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will show compassion on whom I show compassion.