Exodus 33:23

World English Bible (2000)

then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen."

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  • Exod 33:20 : 20 He said, "You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live."
  • John 1:18 : 18 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
  • 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
  • 1 Cor 13:12 : 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
  • Job 11:7 : 7 "Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
  • Job 26:14 : 14 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"

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  • Exod 33:12-22
    11 verses
    88%

    12Moses said to Yahweh, "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 favor in my sight.'

    13Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight: and consider that this nation is your people."

    14He said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."

    15He said to him, "If your presence doesn't go with me, don't carry us up from here.

    16For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn't it in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?"

    17Yahweh said to Moses, "I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name."

    18He said, "Please show me your glory."

    19He said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy."

    20He said, "You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live."

    21Yahweh also said, "Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock.

    22It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;

  • Job 13:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20"Only don't do two things to me; then I will not hide myself from your face:

    21withdraw your hand far from me; and don't let your terror make me afraid.

  • Job 23:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8"If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can't find him;

    9He works to the north, but I can't see him. He turns south, but I can't catch a glimpse of him.

  • Exod 10:28-29
    2 verses
    72%

    28Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Be careful to see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!"

    29Moses said, "You have spoken well. I will see your face again no more."

  • Deut 31:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, 'Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us?'

    18I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have worked, in that they are turned to other gods.

  • Exod 3:4-6
    3 verses
    72%

    4When Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, "Moses! Moses!" He said, "Here I am."

    5He said, "Don't come close. Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground."

    6Moreover he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.

  • Job 19:27
    71%

    27Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.

  • 1 Sam 24:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand shall not be on you.

    13As the proverb of the ancients says, 'Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness;' but my hand shall not be on you.

  • Exod 34:33-35
    3 verses
    70%

    33When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.

    34But when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded.

    35The children of Israel saw Moses' face, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

  • Job 33:7
    70%

    7Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid, neither shall my pressure be heavy on you.

  • Job 7:8
    70%

    8The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.

  • Gen 18:17
    70%

    17Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

  • Num 12:8
    70%

    8With him I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh's form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?"

  • Acts 7:32
    69%

    32'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' Moses trembled, and dared not look.

  • Isa 47:3
    69%

    3Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man."

  • Job 27:11
    69%

    11I will teach you about the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

  • Ezek 1:28
    69%

    28As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.

  • Exod 3:20
    69%

    20I will put forth my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in its midst, and after that he will let you go.

  • Exod 3:12
    69%

    12He said, "Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain."

  • Deut 32:20
    69%

    20He said, "I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

  • Job 41:12
    69%

    12"I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.

  • Exod 33:3
    69%

    3to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way."

  • Exod 34:3
    69%

    3No one shall come up with you; neither let anyone be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mountain."

  • Exod 34:10
    68%

    10He said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which you are shall see the work of Yahweh; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you.

  • Gen 32:30
    68%

    30Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."

  • Job 42:5
    68%

    5I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.

  • Job 13:24
    68%

    24Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?

  • Judg 6:17
    68%

    17He said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.

  • Ps 27:8
    68%

    8When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, Yahweh."

  • Job 9:11
    68%

    11Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.

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    5You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.