Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Think back to yesterday. The people of Israel have just made a golden calf while Moses was meeting with God, then Moses destroyed it and gave the people an ultimatum.

The Levites rose to the occasion and killed 3,000 people who weren't on God's side.

In the aftermath of all this, Moses has a conversation with God.

If you're looking at your Bible with your eyes right now, imagine 33, 7 through 11 is copied and pasted above verse 1. The conversation that happens between God and

Moses in verses 1 through 6 actually flows straight into verse 12. Versus 7 through 11 are just a little

detour segment the author inserted to show the depth of the personal relationship between God and

Moses. Hopefully that's not too confusing. Versus 7 through 11 tell us that God and Moses

spent time together regularly. Anytime Moses wanted, he'd go to the tent of meeting outside of the camp and

God would meet with him there. By the way, this tent of meeting is altogether different from the

tabernacle God just described to Moses when they were on Mount Sinai for 40 days. That structure doesn't exist yet.

And when it does, it will be among the people, not outside the camp. Because remember, God said

he wants to dwell in their midst. Lots of people came to seek God at this tent of meeting, but

scripture says God spoke with Moses face to face. Now, God the Father is spirit, so he doesn't technically have a face,

but Scripture often anthropomorphizes God. That just means it explains him in human terms we can

grasp. You may wonder, but what about theophanes, Tara Lee? When he showed up to Abraham as an angel

in Genesis 18, he had a face then. You're right. He had a human

face that was a facade veiling his glory, but it wasn't literally God's face. So don't imagine God

with a face here. That's not what's happening. This is just scripture's way of indicating the

level of intimacy and accessibility here. They spoke face to face as with a friend. Joshua spent a lot of time at this

tent too. You may remember Joshua as the guy who led the battle against the Amalekites when they

had attacked the Israelites unprovoked while Moses was up on the mountain with his staff. Today we saw

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