Exodus 33:23
Good News Translation
Then I will take my hand away, and you will see my back but not my face."

New Revised Standard Version
then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back; but my face shall not be seen.”

Contemporary English Version
Then I will take my hand away, and you will see my back. You will not see my face.

New American Bible
Then I will remove my hand, so that you may see my back; but my face may not be seen.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face thou canst not see.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face thou canst not see.

thou shalt

Exodus 33:20 And again he said: Thou canst not see my face: for man shall not see me, and live.

Job 11:7 Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and wilt find out the Almighty perfectly?

Job 26:14 Lo, these things are said in part of his ways: and seeing we have heard scarce a little drop of his word, who shall be able to behold the thunder of his greatness?

John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time: the only begotten Son who is in the Bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

1 Corinthians 13:12 We see now through a glass in a dark manner: but then face to face. Now I know in part: but then I shall know even as I am known.

1 Timothy 6:16 Who only hath immortality and inhabiteth light inaccessible: whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and empire everlasting. Amen.

Context
The Glory of the LORD
22And when my glory shall pass, I will set thee in a hole of the rock, and protect thee with my righthand till I pass: 23And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face thou canst not see.
Cross References
John 1:18
No man hath seen God at any time: the only begotten Son who is in the Bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

Exodus 33:20
And again he said: Thou canst not see my face: for man shall not see me, and live.

Exodus 33:22
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