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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 33:11

Face to face] A peculiar privilege: cp. Exodus 19:9; Numbers 12:6; Deuteronomy 34:10; Exodus 33:23 shows that the expression 'face to face' is not to be pressed literally, but to be understood as distinct from a revelation by means of dreams or visions: see especially Numbers 12:6. Joshua] see on Exodus 17:9. The priests and Levites were not yet formally consecrated to the service of the sanctuary.

12-17. The promise of God to go with the people is renewed.

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See also Exodus 33:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 33:11. _THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES FACE TO FACE_] That there was no personal appearance here we may readily conceive; and that the communications made by God to Moses were not by _visions...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FACE TO FACE - See Exodus 33:20 note....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    5. MOSES' INTERCESSION AND ITS RESULTS CHAPTER 33 Repentance and Intercession _ 1. The word of the Lord and the people's repentance (Exodus 33:1)_ 2. The tabernacle without the camp (Exodus 33:7)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 33:1 J, EXODUS 33:5 E, EXODUS 33:12 J. YAHWEH'S PRESENCE. The sections of 34 have been glossed and disarranged. In Exodus 33:1 J, Yahweh's ref

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD SPAKE. See note on Exodus 6:10, and compare note on Exodus 3:7. FACE TO FACE. To emphasise the communion in the presence of corporate failure; this must ever be individual and personal. SERV...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Tent of Meeting, and the use made of it by Moses. The sudden introduction of this notice of the Tent of Meeting is extremely surprising; and it is difficult to explain it, except by the conjecture...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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. Deuteron...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES FACE TO FACE, &C.— i.e. Not by visions, dreams, or any obscure and awful resemblances; but by a distinct voice, in a conspicuous, familiar, friendly, and condescending manner...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 33 And Je-ho-vah spake unto Mo-ses, Depart, go up hence, thou and the people that thou hast brought up out of the land of E-gypt, unto the land of which I sware unto Abr...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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 cloudy pillar descended. How wou...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 33 THE *ISRAELITES REALISE THEIR *SIN – VERSES 1-6 V1 Then the *LO...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FACE TO FACE. — Comp. Numbers 12:8; Deuteronomy 34:10. This is clearly spoken of as a privilege peculiar to Moses; but in what exactly the peculiarity consisted is not apparent. Some special closeness...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    MOSES ESTABLISHES A TEMPORARY TABERNACLE. (7-11) Moses, having experienced the blessedness of solitary communion with God during the forty days spent on Sinai, felt now, as he had never felt before, t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ דִבֶּ֨ר יְהוָ֤ה אֶל ־מֹשֶׁה֙ פָּנִ֣ים אֶל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXXIII. _ PREVAILING INTERCESSION._ Exodus 33:1 At this stage the first concession is announced: Moses shall lead the people to their rest, and God will send an angel with him. We have seen...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE ANGEL LEADER AND THE HUMAN INTERCESSOR Exodus 33:1 Moses knew that His people were forgiven, but it hurt him to hear that an angel was henceforth to lead them. See Exodus 32:34. The burden of two...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The command to go forward and possess the land was now repeated to the people. It is clear that the people felt that the promise of an angel to be sent before them was the lowering of a privilege. The...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And the LORD spake unto Moses (d) 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 taber...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Face to face. That is, in a most familiar manner. Though, as we learn from this very chapter, Moses could not see the face of the Lord. (Challoner) --- The angel assumed a human form, (Menochius) whic...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Is it not probable that this was the Lord Jesus in a visible form, as the covenant man? see Gen_17:1; Gen_18:1-2; Judges 13:3 with Exodus 21:22....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    11._And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face _Moses will hereafter be dignified by this distinction, where God would declare the difference between him and other Prophets. (Numbers 12:8.) Familiar i...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 33 AND 34. We have now to examine a little what was taking place among the people, and on Moses's part, the faithful and zealous witness, as a servant of God...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES FACE TO FACE,.... Not by an angel, but he himself in person; not by a dream or vision, but apparently, in real visible appearance; not in dark speeches, but clearly in pl...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And 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 tabernacl...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The Lord spake unto Moses face to face_ Or _, mouth to mouth_, as in Numbers 12:8. Not that God hath a face or mouth, or that Moses could behold it; which is denied, Exodus 33:20; but the sense is, h...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The Lord refuseth to goe as he had promised with the people. 4 The people murmure thereat. 7 The Tabernacle is remoued out of the Campe. 9 The Lord talketh familiarly with Moses. 12 Moses desire...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. It was not a communicating from a distance, nor through any mediating person or agency, but the perfect intercourse of Go...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE SORROW OF THE PEOPLE OVER THEIR SINS...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    SECOND SECTION Stricter Separation between Jehovah and the People. Removal of Moses’ Tent—the Provisional Tabernacle—out of the Camp. The Gracious Token Exodus 33:1-23 A. APPOINTMENT OF AN ANGEL TO...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    TOLD TO GO WITHOUT THE LORD'S PRESENCE (vs.1-23) Again the Lord gives instructions to Moses to depart with the people to go to the land of Canaan, affirming also that He would send His angel before t...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-11 Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp. This seems to have been a temporary building, set up for worship, and at which he judged disputes among the people. The people looked a...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    FACE TO FACE, or, _mouth to mouth_, as NUMBERS 12:8. Not that God hath face or mouth, or that Moses could behold it, which is denied, EXODUS 33:20. But the sense is, he spake with him freely and famil...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    Jehovah refuses to accompany Israel to the land of promise. "I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiff-necked people; lest I consume thee in the way." At the opening of this book, wh...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 33:11 LORD H3068 spoke H1696 (H8765) Moses H4872 face H6440 face H6440 man H376 speaks H1696 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE OLD TENT OF MEETING WHERE TWO FRIENDS MEET (EXODUS 33:7). The reason that we find this passage inserted here is almost certainly because it indicates Moses' close relationship with Yahweh. It will...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The journey to be resumed. God's presence assured. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Joshua. CONCLUSION: God's special presence with us in the wilderness by His Spirit and grace to direct, defend an...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 33:2. _I will send an angel:_ a created angel. Proof demonstrative that the christian fathers are all correct in declaring that the Angel of the covenant, in Exodus 3:2; Exodus 3:6;...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The Lord talked with Moses._ SPEAKING TO GOD In the minds of many prayer seems to differ widely from other forms of communication. Not perceiving any tangible object of address, they feel as if to p...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 33:1 This chapter describes the difficult time following the golden calf episode, as the Lord says he no longer will go AMONG his people (v. Exodus 33:3

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 33:7 Although the Lord has said he will no longer go “among” his people (v. Exodus 33:3), hope remains because of his presence in the PILLAR OF CLOUD

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 33:18. Thy glory] = Kebodecha, from kabod = glory, _i.e_., the mysterious essential qualities of the Deity in all their magnificence and stupendousness. Moses felt forced to ma...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE FIRST ERECTION OF A TABERNACLE. The decision of the matter still hung in suspense. God had not revoked his threat to withdraw himself and leave the host to the conduct of an angel. He h...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Let's turn now to Exodus chapter thirty-three that we might continue our study through the Word of God. And the Lord said unto Moses, Depart, and go up from here, you and the people which you have br...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    spake Exodus 33:9 Genesis 32:30 Numbers 12:8 Deuteronomy 5:4 Deu

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And the Lord spake to Moses face to face as a man speaketh to his friend — Which intimates not only that God revealed himself to Moses with greater clearness than to any other of the prophets, but als...

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