Keluaran 33:23

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Kemudian Aku akan menarik tangan-Ku dan engkau akan melihat belakang-Ku, tetapi wajah-Ku tidak akan kelihatan."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Kemudian Aku akan menarik tangan-Ku dan engkau akan melihat belakang-Ku, tetapi wajah-Ku tidak akan kelihatan."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka apabila Aku sudah melalukan tangan-Ku, maka engkau akan melihat ujung belakang-Ku, tetapi wajah-Ku itu tiada dapat dipandang!

Contextual Overview

¹² And Moyses said vnto the Lord: See, thou sayest vnto me, Leade this people foorth: & thou hast not shewed me who 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 fauour in thy sight, then I pray thee shew me thy 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. ¹⁵ He sayd vnto hym: If thy presence go not with me, cary vs not hence. ¹⁶ For howe shall it be knowen here, that I and thy people haue founde fauour in thy sight, but in that thou goest with vs? If thou goest with vs, shall not I and thy people haue preeminence before all the people that are vpon the face of the earth? ¹⁷ And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses: I wyll do this also that thou hast sayd, for thou hast founde grace in my sight, and I knowe thee by name. ¹⁸ And he sayde: I beseche thee shewe me thy glorie. ¹⁹ Who aunswered: I wyll make all my good go before thee, & I wyll call in the name of Iehouah before thee: and wyl shewe mercy to whom I wyll shewe mercy, and wyll haue compassion, on whom I wyll haue compassion. ²⁰ And he said furthermore, Thou mayest not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and lyue. ²¹ And the Lorde sayd: Beholde, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stande vpon a rocke.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou shalt: Exodus 33:20, Job 11:7, Job 26:14, John 1:18, 1 Corinthians 13:12, 1 Timothy 6:16

Reciprocal: Exodus 24:10 - saw Numbers 12:8 - similitude 1 Kings 19:13 - he wrapped his face Song of Solomon 2:14 - clefts

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will take away mine hand,.... As being covered with the hand may signify the obscurity of the former dispensation, the taking of it away may denote a more clear revelation of the grace and goodness of God in Christ, and so of the glory of it under the Gospel dispensation; and yet what is seen in this, in comparison of the reality of things as they are, or of the heavenly state, are but as next expressed:

and thou shalt see my back parts; which some understand of the humanity of Christ, and his sufferings in it, sometimes expressed by his heel, and the bruising of it, Genesis 3:15 or else the works of God in creation, by which the invisible things of God are seen, and which give a knowledge of him "a posteriori"; and so Maimonides d interprets the phrase, which follow me, flow from my will, i.e. all my creatures: or rather it denotes the imperfect knowledge of God in the present state, even as revealed in Christ, in whom there are the clearest and brightest displays of his glory; yet this, in comparison of the beatific sight of him, is but like seeing a man that is gone by, whose back is only to be seen:

but my face shall not be seen; in the present state, the face of God, that is, his favour, communion with him, and the light of his countenance, are to be sought for, and may be enjoyed; the glory of himself is to be seen in the face or person of Christ, and the glory of that face or person is to be seen in the glass of the Gospel, but at present imperfectly; God in Christ as he is, the fullest and brightest displays of his glory, grace, and goodness, are reserved to another state, see 1 Corinthians 13:9 or it may regard the divine nature of Christ, which could not be seen by Moses, but his back parts, or human; Christ as clothed with flesh might, and would be seen by him, as he was seen by him on the mount, Matthew 17:3.

d Moreh Nevochim, par. 1. c. 38.