After the golden calf, God tells Israel he will send an angel but will not go up among them himself - and Moses refuses to move another step without God’s own presence.
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Lyrics
The LORD spoke to Moses, depart go up from here You and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt To the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob
Saying, I will give it to your offspring I will send an angel before you And I will drive out the Canaanite the Amorite and the Hittite And the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite
Go to a land flowing with milk and honey But I will not go up amongst you For you are a stiff-necked people
Lest I consume you on the way When the people heard this evil news they mourned And no one put on his jewellery The LORD had said to Moses
Tell the children of Israel, you are a stiff-necked people If I were to go up amongst you for one moment I would consume you Therefore now take off your jewellery from you
That I may know what to do to you The children of Israel stripped themselves Of their jewellery from Mount Horeb onward Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp
Far away from the camp And he called it the Tent of Meeting Everyone who sought the LORD went out to the Tent of Meeting Which was outside the camp
When Moses went out to the Tent All the people rose up and stood Everyone at their tent door and watched Moses Until he had gone into the Tent
The pillar of cloud descended stood at the door of the Tent And the LORD spoke with Moses Moses said to the LORD, 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 favour in my sight If I have found favour in your sight, please show me your way Now that I may know you so that I may find favour in your sight Consider that this nation is your people He said, my presence will go with you and I will give you rest
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Exodus 33 sung by Psalm Selah. The whole Bible, one chapter at a time.