Exodus 34:33

And when Moses had made an end of speaking with them, he put over his face a veil:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.

In Context

32And afterwards, came nigh, all the sons of Israel, and he gave them in commandment all that Yahweh had spoken with him in Mount Sinai.

34but, as often as Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him, he put aside the veil until he came out,—and, as often as he came out and spake unto the sons of Israel, that which he had been commanded,

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 3:13And are not just like Moses, [who] kept putting a veil upon his face, so that the sons of Israel should not look steadily unto the end of that which was to be done away.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 34:29-35

The Veil of Moses. ( b. c. 1491.) 28 And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. 29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. 30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin… Read the whole commentary →

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