15. Then he said to Him, "If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here.
16. For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are upon the face of the earth?"
17. The Lord said to Moses, "I will also do this thing of which you have spoken; for you have found favor in My sight and I have known you by name."
18. Then Moses said, "I pray You, show me Your glory!"
19. And He said, "I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the Lord before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion on whom I will show compassion."
20. But He said, "You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!"
21. Then the Lord said, "Behold, there is a place by Me, and you shall stand there on the rock;
22. and it will come about, while My glory is passing by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by.
23. Then I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen."