Exodus 33:13

Exodus 33:13

11 So ^athe Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but ^bhis servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.

The Promise of God’s Presence

12 Then Moses said to the Lord, “See, ^aYou say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ^b‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.’

13 Now therefore, I pray, ^aif I have found grace in Your sight, ^bshow me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is ^cYour people.”

14 And He said, ^a“My Presence will go with you, and I will give you ^brest.”

15 Then he said to Him, ^a“If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here.

16 For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, ^aexcept You go with us? So we ^bshall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth.”

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John Wesley's Notes

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Now therefore, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me thy way - What favour God had expressed to the people they had forfeited the benefit of; and therefore Moses lays the stress of his plea upon what God had said to him. By this therefore he takes hold on God, Lord, if thou wilt do any thing for me, do this for the people. Thus our Lord Jesus, in his intercession, presents himself to the Father, as one in whom he is always well - pleased, and so obtains mercy for us with whom he is justly displeased, Shew me thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight - He insinuates that the people also, though most unworthy, yet were in some relation to God; consider that this nation is thy people; a people that thou hast done great things for, redeemed to thyself, and taken into covenant with thyself; Lord, they are thy own, do not leave them.

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