Exodus 33:16-20
Exodus 33:16
For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are on the face of the earth?”
Exodus 33:17
The Lord said to Moses, “I will also do this thing of which you have spoken; for you have found favor in My sight and I have known you by name.”
Exodus 33:18
Then Moses said, “Please, show me Your glory!”
Exodus 33:19
And He said, “I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the Lord before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion to whom I will show compassion.”
Exodus 33:20
He further said, “You cannot see My face, for mankind shall not see Me and live!”