Exodus 33:11

would speak unto Moses face to face not from the distant heaven, or with the comparative indistinctness of a vision or a dream (Numbers 12:8), but -face to face" (so Deuteronomy 34:10; cf. Deuteronomy 5:4), or -mouth to mouth" (Nu. l.c.), like one friend speaking to another. Moses would then return into the camp; but his minister(Exodus 24:13), Joshua, remained permanently in charge of the Tent (cf. Samuel, 1 Samuel 3:3; 1 Samuel 3:15).