Exodus 33:18

New American Standard Bible (1995)

Then Moses said, "I pray You, show me Your glory!"

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He said, "Please show me your glory."

King James Version
And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.

Lexham English Bible
And he said, "Please show me your glory."

New Century Version
Then Moses said, "Now, please show me your glory."

New English Translation
And Moses said, "Show me your glory."

Amplified Bible
Then Moses said, "Please, show me Your glory!"

New American Standard Bible
Then Moses said, "Please, show me Your glory!"

Geneva Bible (1587)
Againe he sayde, I beseech thee, shewe me thy glory.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Moses said, "I pray You, show me Your glory!"

Contemporary English Version
Then Moses said, "I pray that you will let me see you in all of your glory."

Complete Jewish Bible
But Moshe said, "I beg you to show me your glory!"

Darby Translation
And he said, Let me, I pray thee, see thy glory.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then Moses said, "Now, please show me your Glory."

English Standard Version
Moses said, "Please show me your glory."

George Lamsa Translation
And Moses said, Show me thy glory.

Good News Translation
Then Moses requested, "Please, let me see the dazzling light of your presence."

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Moses said, “Please, let me see your glory.”

Literal Translation
And he said, I pray, let me see Your glory.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He sayde: Oh let me the se thy glory.

American Standard Version
And he said, Show me, I pray thee, thy glory.

Bible in Basic English
And Moses said, O Lord, let me see your glory.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he sayde: I beseche thee shewe me thy glorie.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he said: 'Show me, I pray Thee, Thy glory.'

King James Version (1611)
And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses says, Manifest thyself to me.

English Revised Version
And he said, Shew me, I pray thee, thy glory.

Berean Standard Bible
Then Moses said, "Please show me Your glory."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Moises seide, Schewe thou thi glorie to me.

Young's Literal Translation
And he saith, `Shew me, I pray Thee, Thine honour;'

Update Bible Version
And he said, Show me, I pray you, your glory.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he said, I beseech thee, show me thy glory.

World English Bible
He said, "Please show me your glory."

New King James Version
And he said, "Please, show me Your glory."

New Living Translation
Moses responded, "Then show me your glorious presence."

New Life Bible
Moses said, "I pray to You, show me Your shining-greatness!"

New Revised Standard
Moses said, "Show me your glory, I pray."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he said, - Show me, I pray thee, thy glory.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said: Shew me thy glory.

Revised Standard Version
Moses said, "I pray thee, show me thy glory."

THE MESSAGE
Moses said, "Please. Let me see your Glory."

Contextual Overview

¹² Then Moses said to the LORD, "See, You say to me, 'Bring up this people!' But You Yourself have not let me know whom You will send with me. Moreover, You have said, 'I have known you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.' ¹³ "Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, let me know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. Consider too, that this nation is Your people." ¹⁴ And He said, "My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest." ¹⁵ Then he said to Him, "If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here. ¹⁶ "For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are upon the face of the earth?" ¹⁷ The LORD said to Moses, "I will also do this thing of which you have spoken; for you have found favor in My sight and I have known you by name." ¹⁸ Then Moses said, "I pray You, show me Your glory!"¹⁹ And He said, "I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the LORD before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion on whom I will show compassion." ²⁰ But He said, "You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!" ²¹ Then the LORD said, "Behold, there is a place by Me, and you shall stand there on the rock;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 33:20, Psalms 4:6, John 1:18, 2 Corinthians 3:18, 2 Corinthians 4:6, 1 Timothy 6:16, Titus 2:13, Revelation 21:23

Reciprocal: Genesis 16:13 - Thou Exodus 33:13 - that I Psalms 63:2 - To see Psalms 119:68 - good Psalms 138:5 - for great Isaiah 35:2 - they shall Ezekiel 1:28 - This Micah 7:18 - that Matthew 17:4 - it is Luke 9:32 - they saw John 12:41 - saw John 14:8 - show Romans 5:2 - the glory

Cross-References

Genesis 25:20
and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.

Genesis 28:2
"Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.

Genesis 33:6
Then the maids came near with their children, and they bowed down.

Genesis 33:7
Leah likewise came near with her children, and they bowed down; and afterward Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed down.

Genesis 35:9
Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him.

Genesis 46:15
These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah; all his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.

Joshua 24:1
Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel and for their heads and their judges and their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

Judges 9:1
And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's relatives, and spoke to them and to the whole clan of the household of his mother's father, saying,

John 3:23
John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there; and people were coming and were being baptized—

John 4:5
So He came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said, I beseech thee, show me thy glory. Not any visible lustre, splendour, and brightness, as a symbol of the divine Presence, that he had seen, Exodus 16:7 nor the glorious essence of God, as Maimonides b, which is invisible and cannot be seen, and of which Moses could not be ignorant; nor the glory of the heavenly state, which also he must know he could not see until he came thither; but he seems to mean some visible glorious representation of God, such as he had never seen, though he had been with him so long on the mount in the cloud, and heard his voice, and saw some appearances of brightness and glory, yet not in any form that he could frame any idea of; perhaps he may mean the Angel of God's presence, called his face, the promised Messiah and glorious Redeemer and Saviour, in whom there is such a bright display of the glory of the divine perfections; yea, is the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person; and this favour was granted him, with some proper limitations and restrictions; for though this request was, no doubt, sincere and upright, it might be attended with frailty and weakness; yet it is not utterly denied, but with some explanation is allowed, and perhaps was the highest favour ever granted to any before the incarnation of our Lord, at least in so full and glorious a manner as this was; Moses having by his suit obtained much, wants more and is emboldened to ask it, and in a good measure had it, as the following words show.

b Yesude Hatorah, c. 1. sect. 10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shew me thy glory - The faithful servant of Yahweh, now assured by the success of his mediation, yearns, with the proper tendency of a devout spirit, for a more intimate communion with his divine Master than he had yet enjoyed. He seeks for something surpassing all former revelations.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 33:18. Show me thy glory — Moses probably desired to see that which constitutes the peculiar glory or excellence of the Divine nature as it stands in reference to man. By many this is thought to signify his eternal mercy in sending Christ Jesus into the world. Moses perceived that what God was now doing had the most important and gracious designs which at present he could not distinctly discover; therefore he desires God to show him his glory. God graciously promises to indulge him in this request as far as possible, by proclaiming his name, and making all his goodness pass before him, Exodus 33:19. But at the same time he assures him that he could not see his face - the fulness of his perfections and the grandeur of his designs, and live, as no human being could bear, in the present state, this full discovery. But he adds, Thou shalt see my back parts, את אחרי eth achorai, probably meaning that appearance which he should assume in after times, when it should be said, God is manifest in the flesh. This appearance did take place, for we find God putting him into a cleft of the rock, covering him with his hand, and passing by in such a way as to exhibit a human similitude. John may have had this in view when he said, The Word was made flesh and dwelt AMONG us, full of grace and truth, and WE BEHELD HIS GLORY. What this glory was, and what was implied by this grace and truth, we shall see in the succeeding chapter.