Exodus 33:11

Yahweh would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua son of Nun, a young man, would stay in the tent.

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And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.

In Context

10Whenever all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the entrance to the tent, they would get up and worship, every man at his own tent entrance.

12Moses said to Yahweh, “See, you have been saying to me, 'Take this people on their journey,' but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my eyes.'

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Cross References

Exodus 17:9So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some men and go out. Fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”

Exodus 32:17When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is the noise of combat in the camp.”

Numbers 12:7My servant Moses is not like that. 1 He is faithful in all my house. 1

Deuteronomy 5:4Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mount out of the middle of the fire

Deuteronomy 34:10There has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face.

Job 16:21I ask for that witness in heaven to argue for this man with God 1 as a man does with his neighbor! 1

Matthew Henry on Exodus 33:8-12

The Tabernacle of the Congregation. ( b. c. 1491.) 7 And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the Lord went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp. 8 And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the… Read the whole commentary →

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