¶The .xxxiii. Chapter.
1 God geueth the people an angell to guyde them. 3 God refuseth to go vp with his people. 4 The people mourneth. 7 The tabernacle of the congregation, or of the couenaunt. 9 Moyses talketh with God familiarly. 12 He requireth God to be with him in reducing the people, and the way to be shewed him. To finde grace before God. 17 Moyses is mercyfully hearde. 18 He desireth to see the glory of God. 22 He is byd∣den to stande in a rocke.
[unspec A] 1 AND the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses: Depart and go vp hence, thou and the people whiche thou hast brought out of the lande of Egypt, vnto the land which I sware vnto Abraham, Isahac, & Iacob, saying, vnto thy seede wyll I geue it.
2 And I will send an angell before thee, and I wyll cast out the Chanaanites, the Amorites, & the Hethites, the Phe∣rezites, the Heuites, and the Iebusites:
3 Vnto a lande that floweth with (a) 1.1 mylke and hony. For I wyll not go a∣mongest you my selfe: for ye are a styf∣necked people, lest I consume thee in the way.
4 And when the people hearde this euil tidinges, they sorowed: and no man dyd put on his best rayment.
5 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses: Say vnto the chyldren of Israel, ye are a styfnecked people: I must come once sodaynly vpon you, and make an ende of you: therefore nowe put thy goodly rayment from thee, that I may wyt what to do vnto thee.
6 And the children of Israel layde their goodly rayment from them, euen by the mount Horeb.
[unspec B] 7 And Moyses toke the tabernacle, and pitched it without the hoast a farre of from the hoast, and called it the taber∣nacle of the congregation: And so it came to passe that euery one whiche woulde pray vnto the Lorde, went out vnto the tabernacle of the congregation whiche was without the hoast.
8 And when Moyses went out vnto the tabernacle, all the people rose vp, and stode euery man at his tent doore, and loked after Moyses, vntill he was gone into the tabernacle.
9 And assoone as Moyses was entred in∣to the tabernacle, the cloudie piller des∣cended, and stode at the doore of the ta∣bernacle, and he talked with Moyses.
10 And all the people sawe the cloudie piller stand at the tabernacle doore, and they rose vp and worshipped euery man in his tent doore.
11 And the Lord spake vnto Moyses (b) 1.2 face to face, as a man speaketh vnto his freende. And he turned agayne into the hoast: but the young man Iosuah his seruaunt the sonne of Nun, departed not out of the tabernacle.
12 And Moyses said vnto the Lord: See, thou sayest vnto me, Leade this people foorth: & thou hast not shewed me whō thou wylt send with me. And thou hast sayd moreouer, I knowe thee by name, & thou hast also found grace in my sight.
13 Nowe therfore, if I haue founde fa∣uour in thy sight, then I pray thee shew me thy (c) 1.3 way, that I may know thee, and that I may finde grace in thy sight, and consider also that this nation is thy people.
14 And he said: My presence shall go with thee, and I wyll geue thee rest. [unspec C]
15 He sayd vnto hym: If thy presence go not with me, cary vs not hence.