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Exodus chapter 33, verse 11.

Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face as a man speaks to his friend.

Exodus chapter 33 is one of my favorite chapters in the Book of Exodus, maybe in the Old Testament, altogether for so many reasons that we don't have time to dive into now.

But this verse in particular, in this part of Exodus chapter 33, so the context here is verse 7 says Moses used to take the tent and pitch it

outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought

the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp. Whenever Moses went out

to the tent, so picture this scene, all the people would rise up and

each would stand at his tent door and watch Moses until he had gone into the tent.

So just picture that scene.

Like word gets around that Moses is going to meet with God. He's going out to the tent of meeting. And so everybody

stands up, they all gather in front of their tent doors and they watch in silent awe as this man

walks out, goes into a tent to meet with God. Then listen to verse

nine, it says when Moses enter the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the

entrance of the tent. And the Lord would speak with Moses. So Moses walks in the tent, this cloud comes over, it rests over it.

And verse 10 says, when all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the

tent, all the people would rise up and worship each at his tent door. Like everybody is worshipping.

I don't know what that means, how that worship was playing out,

if it was just silent awe, if they were singing or shouting what it was. But they were

worshipping. Why? Because there was a man who was meeting with God. And that leads to verse

11. Thus, the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face as a man speaks

to his friend. This is one of those places. We just can't leave this story in the Old

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