1Then the LORD YHWH said to Moses (drawn out), “Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of the land of Egypt (land of bondage), and go to the land that I promised to Abraham (father of many), Isaac (he laughs), and Jacob (he grasps the heel) when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’
2And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites (merchants), Amorites (sayers), Hittites, Perizzites (villagers), Hivites, and Jebusites (Jerusalemites).
3Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”
5For the LORD YHWH had said to Moses (drawn out), “Tell the Israelites (God prevails), ‘You⁺ are a stiff-necked people. If I should go with you for a single moment, I would destroy you. Now take off your jewelry, and I will decide what to do with you.’”
7Now Moses (drawn out) used to take the tent and pitch it at a distance outside the camp. He called it the Tent of Meeting, and anyone inquiring of the LORD YHWH would go to the Tent of Meeting outside the camp.
8Then, whenever Moses (drawn out) went out to the tent, all the people would stand at the entrances to their own tents and watch Moses until he entered the tent.
10When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, they would stand up and worship, each one at the entrance to his own tent.
11Thus the LORD YHWH would speak to Moses (drawn out) face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young assistant Joshua (YHWH saves) son of Nun (fish / posterity) would not leave the tent.
12Then Moses (drawn out) said to the LORD YHWH, “Look, You have been telling me, ‘Lead this people up,’ 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 found favor in My sight.’
13Now if indeed I have found favor in Your sight, please let me know Your ways, that I may know You and find favor in Your sight. Remember that this nation is Your people.”
16For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”
17So the LORD YHWH said to Moses (drawn out), “I will do this very thing you have asked, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.”
19“I will cause all My goodness to pass before you,” the LORD replied, “and I will proclaim My name—the LORD YHWH—in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion <Rom 9:15>.”