Moses’ Intercession
12 Moses said to the Lord, "See, ch. 32:34you say to me, ‘Bring up this people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ver. 17‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’ 13 Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please Ps. 25:4;[Ps. 103:7] show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is Deut. 9:29;[Joel 2:17]your people." 14 And he said, Josh. 1:5;Isa. 63:9;See ch. 40:34-38"My presence will go with you, and Deut. 3:20;Josh. 21:44;22:4;23:1;[Ps. 95:11]I will give you rest." 15 And he said to him, [ver. 1-3]"If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here. 16 For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Num. 14:14Is it not in your going with us, ch. 19:5,6;1 Kgs. 8:53so that we are distinct, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?"
17 And the Lord said to Moses, "This very thing that you have spoken I will do, ver. 12, 13for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name."