33 ⁷ Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp; and he called it the tent of meeting. And every one who sought Yahweh would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp. 33 ⁸ Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose up, and every man stood at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he had gone into the tent. 33 ⁹ When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the door of the tent, and Yahweh would speak with Moses. 33 ¹⁰ And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the door of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, every man at his tent door. 33 ¹¹ Thus Yahweh used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tent.

33 ¹² Moses said to Yahweh, "See, you say to me, 'Bring up this people'; but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favour in my sight.' 33 ¹³ Now therefore, if I have found favour in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you and find favour in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people." 33 ¹⁴ And he said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." 33 ¹⁵ And he said to him, "If your presence will not go with me, do not carry us up from here. 33 ¹⁶ For how shall it be known that I have found favour in your sight, I and your people? Is it not in your going with us, so that we are distinct, I and your people, from all other people that are upon the face of the earth?"

33 ¹⁷ And Yahweh said to Moses, "This very thing that you have spoken I will do; for you have found favour in my sight, and I know you by name." 33 ¹⁸ Moses said, "Please show me your glory." 33 ¹⁹ And he said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim before you my name 'Yahweh'; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. 33 ²⁰ But," he said, "you cannot see my face; for man shall not see me and live." 33 ²¹ And Yahweh said, "Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand upon the rock; 33 ²² and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by; 33 ²³ then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back; but my face shall not be seen."