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All Quotations are from the Bible (Revised Standard Edition).
Exodus 3:1-8
1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro,
the priest of Mid'ian; and he led his flock to the west side of the
wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 And the angel
of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a
bush; and he looked, and lo, the bush was burning, yet it was not
consumed. 3 And Moses said, "I will turn aside and see this
great sight, why the bush is not burnt." 4 When the LORD saw
that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush,
"Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here am I." 5 Then
he said, "Do not come near; put off your shoes from your feet,
for the place on which you are standing is holy ground." 6 And
he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face,
for he was afraid to look at God. 7 Then the LORD said, "I have
seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard
their cry because of their taskmasters; I know their sufferings, 8
and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the
Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad
land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the
Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites,
and the Jeb'usites.
Exodus 13:20-22
20 And they moved on from Succoth, and encamped at Etham, on the
edge of the wilderness. 21 And the LORD went before them by day in a
pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar
of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by
night; 22 the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night
did not depart from before the people.
Exodus14:19-25
18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have
gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen." 19
Then the angel of God who went before the host of Israel moved and
went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and
stood behind them, 20 coming between the host of Egypt and the host
of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness; and the night
passed without one coming near the other all night. 21 Then Moses
stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD drove the sea back
by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the
waters were divided. 22 And the people of Israel went into the midst
of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their
right hand and on their left. 23 The Egyptians pursued, and went in
after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his
chariots, and his horsemen. 24 And in the morning watch the LORD in
the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down upon the host of the
Egyptians, and discomfited the host of the Egyptians, 25 clogging
their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily; and the Egyptians
said, "Let us flee from before Israel; for the LORD fights for
them against the Egyptians."
Exodus 16:4
4 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread
from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's
portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in
my law or not.
Exodus 19:16-22
16 On the morning of the third day there were thunders and
lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mountain, and a very loud
trumpet blast, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled.
17 Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God; and
they took their stand at the foot of the mountain. 18 And Mount
Sinai was wrapped in smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in
fire; and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the
whole mountain quaked greatly. 19 And as the sound of the trumpet
grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in
thunder. 20 And the LORD came down upon Mount Sinai, to the top of
the mountain; and the LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain,
and Moses went up. 21 And the LORD said to Moses, "Go down and
warn the people, lest they break through to the LORD to gaze and
many of them perish. 22 And also let the priests who come near to
the LORD consecrate themselves, lest the LORD break out upon
them."
Exodus 20:18-21
18 Now when all the people perceived the thunderings and the
lightnings and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking,
the people were afraid and trembled; and they stood afar off, 19 and
said to Moses, "You speak to us, and we will hear; but let not
God speak to us, lest we die." 20 And Moses said to the people,
"Do not fear; for God has come to prove you, and that the fear
of him may be before your eyes, that you may not sin." 21 And
the people stood afar off, while Moses drew near to the thick
darkness where God was.
Exodus 24:9-18
9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abi'hu, and seventy of the
elders of Israel went up, 10 and they saw the God of Israel; and
there was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone,
like the very heaven for clearness. 11 And he did not lay his hand
on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate
and drank. 12 The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me on the
mountain, and wait there; and I will give you the tables of stone,
with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their
instruction." 13 So Moses rose with his servant Joshua, and
Moses went up into the mountain of God. 14 And he said to the
elders, "Tarry here for us, until we come to you again; and,
behold, Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a cause, let him go
to them." 15 Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud
covered the mountain. 16 The glory of the LORD settled on Mount
Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and on the seventh day he
called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17 Now the appearance
of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the
mountain in the sight of the people of Israel. 18 And Moses entered
the cloud, and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the
mountain forty days and forty nights.
Exodus 33:1-23
1 The LORD said to Moses, "Depart, go up hence, 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
descendants I will give it.' 2 And I will send an angel before you,
and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the
Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites. 3 Go up to a land
flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, lest I
consume you in the way, for you are a stiff-necked people." 4
When the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned; and no man
put on his ornaments. 5 For 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
put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do with
you.'" 6 Therefore the people of Israel stripped themselves of
their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward. 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 the LORD
would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp. 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. 9 When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of
cloud would descend and stand at the door of the tent, and the LORD
would speak with Moses. 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. 11 Thus 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 servant Joshua the son of Nun,
a young man, did not depart from the tent. 12 Moses said to the
LORD, "See, thou sayest to me, 'Bring up this people'; but thou
hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast
said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my
sight.' 13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thy
sight, show me now thy ways, that I may know thee and find favor in
thy sight. Consider too that this nation is thy people." 14 And
he said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you
rest." 15 And he said to him, "If thy presence will not go
with me, do not carry us up from here. 16 For how shall it be known
that I have found favor in thy sight, I and thy people? Is it not in
thy going with us, so that we are distinct, I and thy people, from
all other people that are upon the face of the earth?" 17 And
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." 18 Moses said, "I pray thee, show me thy
glory." 19 And 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. 20 But," he said, "you cannot see
my face; for man shall not see me and live." 21 And the LORD
said, "Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand
upon the rock; 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; 23 then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my
back; but my face shall not be seen."
Exodus 34:1-35
1 The LORD said to Moses, "Cut two tables of stone like the
first; and I will write upon the tables the words that were on the
first tables, which you broke. 2 Be ready in the morning, and come
up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me
on the top of the mountain. 3 No man shall come up with you, and let
no man be seen throughout all the mountain; let no flocks or herds
feed before that mountain." 4 So Moses cut two tables of stone
like the first; and he rose early in the morning and went up on
Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand two
tables of stone. 5 And the LORD descended in the cloud and stood
with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 6 The LORD
passed before him, and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD, a God
merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast
love and faithfulness, 7 keeping steadfast love for thousands,
forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no
means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon
the children and the children's children, to the third and the
fourth generation." 8 And Moses made haste to bow his head
toward the earth, and worshiped. 9 And he said, "If now I have
found favor in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in
the midst of us, although it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon
our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thy inheritance." 10
And he said, "Behold, I make a covenant. Before all your people
I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth or
in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the
work of the LORD; for it is a terrible thing that I will do with
you. 11 "Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will
drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the
Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites. 12 Take heed to
yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land
whither you go, lest it become a snare in the midst of you. 13 You
shall tear down their altars, and break their pillars, and cut down
their Ashe'rim 14 (for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD,
whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), 15 lest you make a
covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they play the
harlot after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and one invites
you, you eat of his sacrifice, 16 and you take of their daughters
for your sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their gods
and make your sons play the harlot after their gods. 17 "You
shall make for yourself no molten gods. 18 "The feast of
unleavened bread you shall keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened
bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib;
for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt. 19 All that opens the
womb is mine, all your male cattle, the firstlings of cow and sheep.
20 The firstling of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you
will not redeem it you shall break its neck. All the first-born of
your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.
21 "Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall
rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. 22 And you
shall observe the feast of weeks, the first fruits of wheat harvest,
and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. 23 Three times in
the year shall all your males appear before the LORD God, the God of
Israel. 24 For I will cast out nations before you, and enlarge your
borders; neither shall any man desire your land, when you go up to
appear before the LORD your God three times in the year. 25
"You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven;
neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left
until the morning. 26 The first of the first fruits of your ground
you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not
boil a kid in its mother's milk." 27 And the LORD said to
Moses, "Write these words; in accordance with these words I
have made a covenant with you and with Israel." 28 And he was
there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate
bread nor drank water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the
covenant, the ten commandments. 29 When Moses came down from Mount
Sinai, with the two tables of the testimony in his hand as he came
down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face
shone because he had been talking with God. 30 And when Aaron and
all the people of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face
shone, and they were afraid to come near him. 31 But Moses called to
them; and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to
him, and Moses talked with them. 32 And afterward all the people of
Israel came near, and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD
had spoken with him in Mount Sinai. 33 And when Moses had finished
speaking with them, he put a veil on his face; 34 but whenever Moses
went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the veil off,
until he came out; and when he came out, and told the people of
Israel what he was commanded, 35 the people of Israel saw the face
of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone; and Moses would put
the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
Exodus 40:33-38
33 And he erected the court round the tabernacle and the altar,
and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished
the work. 34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the
glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. 35 And Moses was not able
to enter the tent of meeting, because the cloud abode upon it, and
the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. 36 Throughout all their
journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle,
the people of Israel would go onward; 37 but if the cloud was not
taken up, then they did not go onward till the day that it was taken
up. 38 For throughout all their journeys the cloud of the LORD was
upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the
sight of all the house of Israel.
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