8. When Moses went out to the Tent, all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.
9. When Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and the Lord spoke with Moses.
10. All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.
11. The Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.
12. Moses said to the Lord, “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.’
13. Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your way, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight; and consider that this nation is your people.”
14. He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
15. Moses said to him, “If your presence doesn’t go with me, don’t carry us up from here.
16. For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn’t it 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?”
17. The Lord 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.”
18. Moses said, “Please show me your glory.”
19. He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the Lord’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”
20. He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.”