Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Dear Jack,

> I see your point.  Ex 33:19 is a very long and indirect way
> of saying - No you may not see my glory.
>
> That provides an interesting transistion into Ex 34.  Moses
> originally asks to be shown Yahweh's way.  Yahweh says I
> will grant you your request.  Moses changes to the subject
> to seeing the glory of Yahweh.  Yahweh says no but does
> show him His goodness are back-side.  Then Yahweh changes
> the subject back to His teachings and has Moses make a new
> set of stone tablets on which will be written the ways of
> Yahweh.  That provides an interupted narrative Teachings -
> Glory - Glory  - Teachings.


HH: I don't think that God's glory can be defined to His face. When 
the tabernacle was built, it was filled with God's glory, something 
Israel saw, but it did not involve God's face, it seems.

                                Yours,
                                Harold Holmyard