Exodus 33:12-23

“And Moses said unto the Lord . . .” (v. 12). Moses spoke to the Lord from the confines of the tabernacle (see v. 9). The tabernacle of Exodus 33 is not the tabernacle that the Lord instructed Moses to build in Exodus 26. The tabernacle of chapter 33 is a tent that served as a place where Moses could approach God. In verse 7, Moses removed the tabernacle from the camp and…