15. Moses replied, “If you are not going yourself, do not make us go up from here.
16. For how can it be known that I and your people have found favor with you, except by your going with us? Then we, your people and I, will be singled out from every other people on the surface of the earth.”
17. The Lord said to Moses: This request, too, which you have made, I will carry out, because you have found favor with me and you are my intimate friend.
18. Then Moses said, “Please let me see your glory!”
19. The Lord answered: I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim my name, “Lord,” before you; I who show favor to whom I will, I who grant mercy to whom I will.
20. But you cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live.
21. Here, continued the Lord, is a place near me where you shall station yourself on the rock.
22. When my glory passes I will set you in the cleft of the rock and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by.
23. Then I will remove my hand, so that you may see my back; but my face may not be seen.