Exodus 33:19-21
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
19 The Lord answered: I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim my name, “Lord,” before you; I who show favor to whom I will, I who grant mercy to whom I will.(A) 20 But you cannot see my face,(B) for no one can see me and live.[a] 21 Here, continued the Lord, is a place near me where you shall station yourself on the rock.
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- 33:20 No one can see me and live: reflecting the tradition that to see God meant instant death. This is contradicted by the statements that Hagar (Gn 16:13), Jacob (Gn 32:31), and Manoah and his wife (Jgs 13:22) all “see God” and yet live (see also Ex 24:10–11).
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