1Herren sagde til Moses: „Det er tid at drage bort herfra med det folk, som du førte ud af Egypten, og gå videre til det land, jeg lovede at give Abrahams, Isaks og Jakobs efterkommere. Det er et rigt og frugtbart land. Jeg vil sende min engel i forvejen, og han skal bortdrive kana’anæerne, amoritterne, hittitterne, perizzitterne, hivvitterne og jebusitterne. Men selv vil jeg ikke tage med jer, for I er et egenrådigt og oprørsk folk, og hvis jeg er midt iblandt jer, kunne jeg komme til at tilintetgøre jer undervejs.”4„Sig til israelitterne, at de er et genstridigt og oprørsk folk,” fortsatte Herren. „Hvis jeg skulle rejse sammen med dem bare en dag, ville de blive tilintetgjort. Sig, at de skal tage deres smykker af, mens jeg overvejer, hvad jeg vil gøre ved dem.” Folket sørgede over de hårde ord,6og der ved Horebs bjerg* tog de deres smykker af.
Åbenbaringsteltet
7Moses plejede at rejse det telt, som han kaldte åbenbaringsteltet, et stykke uden for lejren. Enhver, som ønskede at søge Herrens vilje i en sag, gik ud til det telt.8Hver gang Moses gik derud, rejste folket sig og stillede sig i deres teltdøre og holdt øje med ham, indtil han nåede indgangen.9Når han så gik ind i åbenbaringsteltet, sænkede skysøjlen sig og stod ved indgangen, mens Herren talte med Moses.10Når alt folket så skysøjlen stå ved indgangen til åbenbaringsteltet, stillede de sig ved deres teltdøre og lagde sig på knæ med ansigtet mod jorden i ærefrygt.11Inde i teltet talte Herren med Moses ansigt til ansigt, som når to venner taler sammen. Bagefter vendte Moses tilbage til lejren, men Josva, Nuns søn, den unge mand, som var hans hjælper, forlod ikke åbenbaringsteltet.
Herrens herlighed
12Moses sagde til Herren: „Du har sagt, at jeg skal føre folket af sted, men du har ikke fortalt mig, hvem du vil sende med mig. Du har også sagt, at du accepterer mig, og at du holder af mig.13Hvis det virkelig er sandt, så lær mig mere om dig selv, så jeg bedre kan forstå dig og fortsat leve, som du ønsker. Husk på, at det folk, som jeg skal lede, er dit eget folk.”14Da sagde Herren: „Jeg vil være med jer og føre jer til det sted, hvor I kan slå jer ned.”15„Hvis du ikke var med os, var der ingen grund til at gå et skridt videre!” svarede Moses.16„Hvem vil tro, at du har forkærlighed for mig og Israels folk, hvis ikke du går med? Hvad fortrin har vi ellers frem for jordens øvrige folkeslag?”17Herren svarede: „Jeg vil gøre, hvad du beder om, for jeg holder af dig, og du er min ven.”18Da sagde Moses: „Lad mig få lov at se dig i din herlighed!”19Herren svarede: „Jeg vil lade al min herlighed passere forbi dig og samtidig råbe mit navn ‚Jahve’. Jeg viser godhed imod hvem, jeg vil, og jeg viser barmhjertighed mod hvem, jeg vil.20Men du kan ikke få mit ansigt at se, for intet menneske kan se mig i min herlighed og overleve.21Stil dig ved klippen her udenfor.22Når jeg så går forbi i min herlighed, mens du står i klippespalten, vil jeg dække dig med min hånd, indtil jeg har passeret dig.23Så vil jeg tage min hånd til side, og du kan se mig bagfra, men mit ansigt får ingen at se.”
English Standard Version
The Command to Leave Sinai
1The Lord said to Moses, “Depart; go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give it.’2I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.3Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”4When the people heard this disastrous word, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments.5For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the people of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do with you.’”6Therefore the people of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.
The Tent of Meeting
7Now 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 everyone who sought the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.8Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would rise up, and each would stand at his tent door, and watch Moses until he had gone into the tent.9When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the Lord* would speak with Moses.10And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, each at his tent door.11Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
Moses’ Intercession
12Moses said to the Lord, “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 favor in my sight.’13Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people.”14And he said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”15And he said to him, “If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here.16For how shall it be known that I have found favor 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 every other people on the face of the earth?”17And the Lord said to Moses, “This very thing that you have spoken I will do, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”18Moses said, “Please show me your glory.”19And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.20But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.”21And the Lord said, “Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock,22and 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.23Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen.”
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