1 And YHWH spoke to Moses, “Go, ascend from this place, you and the people, whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land which I have sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I give it to your seed. 2 And I have sent a Messenger before you, and have thrown out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 3 Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey, for I do not go up in your middle, for you are a stiff-necked people—lest I consume you in the way.” 4 And the people heard this sad thing, and mourned. And none put his ornaments on him. 5 And YHWH said to Moses, “Say to the sons of Israel: You are a stiff-necked people. In one moment I could come up into your middle and could consume you. And now, put down your ornaments from off you, and I know what I will do to you.” 6 And the sons of Israel took off their ornaments at Mount Horeb. 7 And Moses took the tent, and stretched it out at the outside of the camp, far off from the camp, and called it, “Tent of Meeting.” And it came to pass, everyone seeking YHWH goes out to the Tent of Meeting, which was at the outside of the camp. 8 And it came to pass, at the going out of Moses to the tent, all the people rose, and had stood, each at the opening of his tent, and had looked expectingly after Moses, until his going into the tent. 9 And it came to pass, at the going in of Moses to the tent, the pillar of the cloud came down, and had stood at the opening of the tent, and He had spoken with Moses. 10 And all the people had seen the pillar of the cloud standing at the opening of the tent, and all the people had risen and bowed themselves, each at the opening of his tent. 11 And YHWH spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he turned back to the camp, and his minister Joshua, son of Nun, a youth, did not depart out of the tent. 12 And Moses said to YHWH, “See, You are saying to me, Bring up this people, and You have not caused me to know whom You send with me. And You have said, I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My eyes. 13 And now, if, please, I have found grace in Your eyes, please cause me to know Your way, and I know You, so that I find grace in Your eyes, and consider that this nation will be Your people.” 14 and He said, “My presence goes, and I will give rest to you.” 15 And he said to Him, “If Your presence is not going—do not take us up from this place. 16 And in what is it known now, that I have found grace in Your eyes—I and Your people—is it not in Your going with us? And we have been distinguished—I and Your people—from all the people who are on the face of the ground.” 17 And YHWH said to Moses, “Even this thing which you have spoken I do. For you have found grace in My eyes, and I know you by name.” 18 And he said, “Please show me Your glory.” 19 And He said, “I cause all My goodness to pass before your face, and have called concerning the name of YHWH before you, and favored him whom I favor, and loved him whom I love.” 20 He also said, “You are unable to see My face, for man does not see Me and live.” 21 YHWH also said, “Look, a place will be by Me, and you have stood on the rock, 22 and it will come to pass, in the passing by of My glory, that I set you in a cleft of the rock, and spread out My hands over you until My passing by, 23 and I turned aside My hands, and you see My back parts, and My face is not seen.”