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20 Behold, I send an [a]Angel before you to keep and guard you on the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.

21 Give heed to Him, listen to and obey His voice; be not rebellious before Him or provoke Him, for He will not pardon your transgression; for My [b]Name is in Him.(A)

22 But if you will indeed listen to and obey His voice and all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

23 When My Angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I reject them and blot them out,

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 23:20 See footnote on Gen. 16:7.
  2. Exodus 23:21 Representing God’s presence.

God’s Angel to Prepare the Way

20 “See, I am sending an angel(A) ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.(B) 21 Pay attention to him and listen(C) to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive(D) your rebellion,(E) since my Name(F) is in him. 22 If you listen carefully to what he says and do(G) all that I say, I will be an enemy(H) to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you. 23 My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites,(I) and I will wipe them out.

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14 And the Lord said, My Presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.

15 And Moses said to the Lord, If Your Presence does not go with me, do not carry us up from here!

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14 The Lord replied, “My Presence(A) will go with you, and I will give you rest.”(B)

15 Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence(C) does not go with us, do not send us up from here.

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31 And in the wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God bore you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.

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31 and in the wilderness. There you saw how the Lord your God carried(A) you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.”(B)

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10 He found him in a desert land, in the howling void of the wilderness; He kept circling around him, He scanned him [penetratingly], He kept him as the pupil of His eye.

11 As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, He spread abroad His wings and He took them, He bore them on His pinions.(A)

12 So the Lord alone led him; there was no foreign god with Him.

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10 In a desert(A) land he found him,
    in a barren and howling waste.(B)
He shielded(C) him and cared for him;
    he guarded him as the apple of his eye,(D)
11 like an eagle that stirs up its nest
    and hovers over its young,(E)
that spreads its wings to catch them
    and carries them aloft.(F)
12 The Lord alone led(G) him;(H)
    no foreign god was with him.(I)

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