The Shining Face of Moses

Exodus 34

²⁹ Now it was so, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the _u two tablets of the Testimony were in Moses' hand when he came down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that _v the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him. ³⁰ So when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him. ³¹ Then Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses talked with them. ³² Afterward all the children of Israel came near, _w and he gave them as commandments all that the LORD had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. ³³ And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put _x a veil on his face.

³⁴ But _y whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with Him, he would take the veil off until he came out; and he would come out and speak to the children of Israel whatever he had been commanded. ³⁵ And whenever the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone, then Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with Him.

1. Cross References
   Exodus 32:15
   And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the Testimony were in his hand. The tablets were written on both sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.
   
2. Cross References
   Matthew 17:2
   And He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.
   2 Corinthians 3:7
   But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away.
   
3. Cross References
   Exodus 24:3
   So Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words which the LORD has said we will do.
   
4. Cross References
   2 Corinthians 3:13
   Unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away.
   2 Corinthians 3:14
   But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ.
   
5. Cross References
   2 Corinthians 3:13 - 16
   Unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away.
   

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