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26 a“The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”  
27 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write athese words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”  
28 aSo he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And bHe wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the1 Ten Commandments.  

The Shining Face of Moses

29 Now it was so, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the atwo tablets of the Testimony were in Moses’ hand when he came down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him.  
30 So when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, athe skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.  
31 Then Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses talked with them.
32 Afterward all the children of Israel came near, aand he gave them as commandments all that the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.  
33 And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put aa veil on his face.  
34 But awhenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he would take the veil off until he came out; and he would come out and speak to the children of Israel whatever he had been commanded.  
Commentaries:


No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Exodus 34:28.

Exodus 34:28-35

Three themes emerge here in Exodus. The first one is that during the 40 days that Moses had been with the being who we know later became Jesus Christ, Moses’ face came to reflect the glory of God (hold onto this concept of “reflect”). Secondly, that glory; that shining face, became a sign which was visible to all; a sign that he had spoken with and was in communication with God and that he was speaking for God whenever he spoke to the people. The people could see this very clearly. There was no question about it. Third, Moses was able to obscure, to cloud, to hide that glory with a veil. The veil allowed him to curtail or to arrest its shining forth.

Excerpted from Of Snowflakes and Suns and Glory

Exodus 34:28-35

They recognize a great difference between them and God, whether He looks like them or not. He is so far above them in purity and righteousness, and it shames them. They feel they have no right to be in the presence of this Being.

What we can learn from these incidents is that holiness is not merely morality, but a combination of consistent and powerful qualities that express a dazzling purity that tends to make men shrink, as if to hide from fear of exposure.

Excerpted from The Priesthood of God (Part 3)



Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Exodus 34:28:

Genesis 9:24-25
Leviticus 16:1-2
2 Corinthians 3:7
Galatians 3:17-25


 
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