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20 But you cannot see my face,(A) for no one can see me and live.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 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).

20 But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one may see(A) me and live.”

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    robed in light as with a cloak.
You spread out the heavens like a tent;(A)

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The Lord wraps(A) himself in light(B) as with a garment;
    he stretches(C) out the heavens(D) like a tent(E)

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