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I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.

EXODUS XXXiii. 18

And Moses said, I beseech thee, show me thy glory.

THE LORD'S ANSWER.

EXODUS XXXiii. 19-23.

I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for there shall no man see me, and live. And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock; and it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my

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hand while I pass by: and I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be

seen.

EXODUS XXXiv. 5—7.

And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and fourth generation.

THE PRAYER OF MOSES.

NUMBERS xi. 1, 2.

And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the

fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp. And the people cried unto Moses.

And when Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire was quenched.

THE PRAYER OF MOSES, COMPLAINING OF HIS CHARGE.

NUMBERS Xi. 14.

And Moses said unto the Lord, I ain not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.

THE LORD'S ANSWER.

NUMBERS Xi. 16, 17.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them into the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee. And I will come down and talk

with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.

THE PRAYER OF MOSES FOR MIRIAM.

NUMBERS xii. 1, 9—13.

And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses, and the anger of the Lord was kindled against them; and the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow. And Aaron said unto Moses, I beseech thee lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.

And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, Heal her now, O Lord, I beseech thee.

THE LORD'S ANSWER.

NUMBERS xii. 14.

And the Lord said unto Moses, If her

father had but spit in her face, should she

not be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.

THE PRAYER OF MOSES.

NUMBERS XIV. 11-19.

And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them? I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they. And Moses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;) and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a

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