Exodus 33:12-23

12Then Moses said to the Lord, “See, You say to me, ‘1Bring up this people!’ But You Yourself have not let me know 2whom You will send with me. 3Moreover, You have said, ‘I have known you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.’ 13Now then, if I have found favor in Your sight in any way, please 4let me know Your ways so that I may know You, in order that I may find favor in Your sight. 5Consider too, that this nation is Your people.” 14And He said, “6My presence shall go with you, and 7I will give you rest.” 15Then he said to Him, “8If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here. 16For 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 9we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are on the face of the 10earth?”

17The Lord said to Moses, “I will also do this thing of which you have spoken; 11for you have found favor in My sight and I have known you by name.” 1812Then Moses said, “Please, show me Your glory!” 19And He said, “13I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the Lord before you; and 14I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion to whom I will show compassion.” 20He further said, “You cannot see My face, 15for mankind shall not see Me and live!” 21Then the Lord said, “Behold, there is a place 16by Me, and 17you shall stand there on the rock; 22and it will come about, while My glory is passing by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock and 18cover you with My hand until I have passed by. 23Then I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but 19My face shall not be seen.”