Exodus 33:20

World English Bible (2000)

He said, "You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live."

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  • Isa 6:5 : 5 Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!"
  • Gen 32:30 : 30 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."
  • Exod 24:10 : 10 They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.
  • John 1:18 : 18 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
  • 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
  • Deut 5:24 : 24 and you said, "Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God does speak with man, and he lives.
  • Judg 6:22 : 22 Gideon saw that he was the angel of Yahweh; and Gideon said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh! Because I have seen the angel of Yahweh face to face!"
  • Judg 13:22 : 22 Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, because we have seen God."
  • Heb 1:13 : 13 But which of the angels has he told at any time, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet?"
  • Rev 1:16-17 : 16 He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest. 17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, "Don't be afraid. I am the first and the last,

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    21Yahweh also said, "Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock.

    22It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;

    23then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen."

  • Exod 10:28-29
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    28Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Be careful to see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!"

    29Moses said, "You have spoken well. I will see your face again no more."

  • Exod 33:11-19
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    11Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn't depart out of the Tent.

    12Moses said to Yahweh, "Behold, you tell me, 'Bring up this people:' and you haven't 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, so that I may find favor in your sight: and consider that this nation is your people."

    14He said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."

    15He said to him, "If your presence doesn't go with me, don't carry us up from here.

    16For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn't it in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?"

    17Yahweh said to Moses, "I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name."

    18He said, "Please show me your glory."

    19He said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy."

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    2Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.

    3No one shall come up with you; neither let anyone be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mountain."

  • Exod 3:4-6
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    4When Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, "Moses! Moses!" He said, "Here I am."

    5He said, "Don't come close. Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground."

    6Moreover he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.

  • Num 12:8
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    8With him I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh's form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?"

  • Exod 20:18-22
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    18All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.

    19They said to Moses, "Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don't let God speak with us, lest we die."

    20Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won't sin."

    21The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

    22Yahweh said to Moses, "This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: 'You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

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    11I said, "I won't see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

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    24and you said, "Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God does speak with man, and he lives.

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    20"Only don't do two things to me; then I will not hide myself from your face:

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    23Moses said to Yahweh, "The people can't come up to Mount Sinai, for you warned us, saying, 'Set bounds around the mountain, and sanctify it.'"

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    31When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,

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    16This is according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, "Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die."

  • Gen 32:30
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    30Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."

  • Num 4:20
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    20but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die."

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    52For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel."

  • Exod 34:6
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    6Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

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    4Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the midst of the fire,

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    2Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him."

  • Exod 20:3
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    3"You shall have no other gods before me.

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    3to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way."

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    27Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.

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    22Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, because we have seen God."

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    17He said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.

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    21Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish.

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    21and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling."

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    12You shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, 'Be careful that you don't go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.

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    15If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don't let me see my wretchedness."

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    22because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;