11And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
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With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,
And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the LORD talked with Moses.
The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-11)Here is, I. One mark of displeasure put upon them for their further humiliation: Moses took the tabernacle , not his own tent for his family, but the tent wherein he gave audience, heard causes, and enquired of God, the guild-hall (as it were) of their camp, and pitched it without, afar off from the camp (Exod. 33:7), to signify to them that they had rendered themselves unworthy of it, and that, u…
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