Exodus 33:2

an angel in the place of Jehovah, and exclusive of Him (see v.3): not, therefore, as Exodus 23:20, where Jehovah is in some sense present in the angel (v.21 -my name is in him"). As was remarked on Exodus 32:34, this is not the usual idea of the -angel": it can, however, be avoided here only by some such supposition as that the words -behold, mine angel shall go before thee" in Exodus 32:34, and v.2 here, are later insertions in the text, made on the basis of Exodus 23:20, without regard to the contradiction which, if -angel" is used here as in Exodus 23:20, they involve with v.3b (-I will not go up with thee"). There are independent reasons for thinking that v.2 here may be a gloss: it interrupts the connexion between v.1 and v.3 (notice - untothe land" &c. at the beginning of v.3); the list of nations is found elsewhere in passages that are probably secondary; and the verse seems inconsistent with v. 12 (where Moses apparently asks to be told what he has already been told here).

I will drive out LXX. (codd. A, F, Luc.) he will drive out, which suits the context better: Jehovah does not personally go with the people into Canaan (v.3).

the Canaanite, &c. On the list of nations, see on Exodus 3:8.