Exodus 33:20

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But he added,“You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live.”

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  • Isa 6:5 : 5 I said,“Woe to me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”
  • Gen 32:30 : 30 So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining,“Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived.”
  • Exod 24:10 : 10 and they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear like the sky itself.
  • John 1:18 : 18 No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.
  • 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 He alone possesses immortality and lives in unapproachable light, whom no human has ever seen or is able to see. To him be honor and eternal power! Amen.
  • Deut 5:24 : 24 You said,“The LORD our God has shown us his great glory and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living.
  • Judg 6:22 : 22 When Gideon realized that it was the LORD’s angel, he said,“Oh no! Sovereign LORD! I have seen the LORD’s angel face to face!”
  • Judg 13:22 : 22 Manoah said to his wife,“We will certainly die, because we have seen a supernatural being!”
  • Heb 1:13 : 13 But to which of the angels has he ever said,“Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?
  • Rev 1:16-17 : 16 He held seven stars in his right hand, and a sharp double-edged sword extended out of his mouth. His face shone like the sun shining at full strength. 17 When I saw him I fell down at his feet as though I were dead, but he placed his right hand on me and said:“Do not be afraid! I am the first and the last,

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    21The LORD said,“Here is a place by me; you will station yourself on a rock.

    22When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and will cover you with my hand while I pass by.

    23Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back, but my face must not be seen.”

  • Exod 10:28-29
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    28Pharaoh said to him,“Go from me! Watch out for yourself! Do not appear before me again, for when you see my face you will die!”

    29Moses said,“As you wish! I will not see your face again.”

  • Exod 33:11-19
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    11The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, the way a person speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his servant, Joshua son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the tent.

    12Moses said to the LORD,“See, you have been saying to me,‘Bring this people up,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. But you said,‘I know you by name, and also you have found favor in my sight.’

    13Now if I have found favor in your sight, show me your way, that I may know you, that I may continue to find favor in your sight. And see that this nation is your people.”

    14And the LORD said,“My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

    15And Moses said to him,“If your presence does not go with us, do not take us up from here.

    16For how will it be known then that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not by your going with us, so that we will be distinguished, I and your people, from all the people who are on the face of the earth?”

    17The LORD said to Moses,“I will do this thing also that you have requested, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”

    18And Moses said,“Show me your glory.”

    19And the LORD said,“I will make all my goodness pass before your face, and I will proclaim the LORD by name before you; I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy.”

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    2Be prepared in the morning, and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and station yourself for me there on the top of the mountain.

    3No one is to come up with you; do not let anyone be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks or the herds may graze in front of that mountain.”

  • Exod 3:4-6
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    4When the LORD saw that he had turned aside to look, God called to him from within the bush and said,“Moses, Moses!” And Moses said,“Here I am.”

    5God said,“Do not approach any closer! Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

    6He added,“I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

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    8With him I will speak face to face, openly, and not in riddles; and he will see the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

  • Exod 20:18-22
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    18All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking– and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.

    19They said to Moses,“You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.”

    20Moses said to the people,“Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you so that you do not sin.”

    21The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

    22The Altar The LORD said to Moses:“Thus you will tell the Israelites:‘You yourselves have seen that I have spoken with you from heaven.

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    11“I thought,‘I will no longer see the LORD in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.

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    20Only in two things spare me, O God, and then I will not hide from your face:

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    23Moses said to the LORD,“The people are not able to come up to Mount Sinai, because you solemnly warned us,‘Set boundaries for the mountain and set it apart.’”

    24The LORD said to him,“Go, get down, and come up, and Aaron with you, but do not let the priests and the people force their way through to come up to the LORD, lest he break through against them.”

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    31When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached to investigate, there came the voice of the Lord,

    32‘I am the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look more closely.

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    16This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the LORD your God:“Please do not make us hear the voice of the LORD our God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die.”

  • Gen 32:30
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    30So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining,“Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived.”

  • Num 4:20
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    20But the Kohathites are not to go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, or they will die.”

  • Deut 32:52
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    52You will see the land before you, but you will not enter the land that I am giving to the Israelites.”

  • Exod 34:6
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    6The LORD passed by before him and proclaimed:“The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness,

  • Deut 5:4
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    4The LORD spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire.

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    2Moses alone may come near the LORD, but the others must not come near, nor may the people go up with him.”

  • Exod 20:3
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    3“You shall have no other gods before me.

  • Exod 33:3
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    3Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you on the way.”

  • Job 19:27
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    27whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.

  • Judg 13:22
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    22Manoah said to his wife,“We will certainly die, because we have seen a supernatural being!”

  • Judg 6:17
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    17Gideon said to him,“If you really are pleased with me, then give me a sign as proof that it is really you speaking with me.

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    21The LORD said to Moses,“Go down and solemnly warn the people, lest they force their way through to the LORD to look, and many of them perish.

  • Heb 12:21
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    21In fact, the scene was so terrifying that Moses said,“I shudder with fear.”

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    12You must set boundaries for the people all around, saying,‘Take heed to yourselves not to go up on the mountain nor touch its edge. Whoever touches the mountain will surely be put to death!

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    15But if you are going to deal with me like this, then kill me immediately. If I have found favor in your sight then do not let me see my trouble.”

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    22For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,