Exodus 33

1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Depart, go up
from here, you and the people that you
have brought up out of the land of Egypt,
to the land of which I swore to Abraham,to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it
to your offspring.’

2 I will send an angel before you; and
I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the
Hivite, and the Jebusite.

3 Go to a land flowing with milk and
honey; but I will not go up among you,
for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I
consume you on the way.”

4 When the people heard this evil news,
they mourned; and no one put on his jewelry.

5 Yahweh had said to Moses, “Tell the
children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked
people. If I were to go up among you
for one moment, I would consume you.
Therefore now take off your jewelry from
you, that I may know what to do to you.’ ”

6 The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb
onward.

7 Now Moses used to take the tent and
pitch it outside the camp, far away from
the camp, and he called it “The Tent of
Meeting.” Everyone who sought Yahweh
went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was
outside the camp.

8 When Moses went out to the Tent, all
the people rose up, and stood, everyone at
their tent door, and watched Moses, until
he had gone into the Tent.

9 When Moses entered into the Tent, the
pillar of cloud descended, stood atthe door
of the Tent, and Yahweh spoke with Moses.

10 All the people saw the pillar of cloud
stand at the door of the Tent, and all the
people rose up and worshiped, everyone
at their tent door.

11 Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face,
as a man speaks to his friend. He turned
again into the camp, but his servant
Joshua,the sonof Nun, a youngman, didn’t
depart from the Tent.