Bible verse
But He added, “You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live.”
Exodus 33:20 · BSB
The verses around it, from Exodus 33.
16 For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”
17 So the LORD said to Moses, “I will do this very thing you have asked, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.”
18 Then Moses said, “Please show me Your glory.”
19 “I will cause all My goodness to pass before you,” the LORD replied, “and I will proclaim My name—the LORD—in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
20 But He added, “You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live.”
21 The LORD continued, “There is a place near Me where you are to stand upon a rock,
22 and when My glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by.
23 Then I will take My hand away, and you will see My back; but My face must not be seen.”
KJV
And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
ASV
And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for man shall not see me and live.
ERV
And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for man shall not see me and live.
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