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(A)Face to face, the Lord spoke with you on the mountain from the midst of the fire,(B)

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15 A prophet like me[a] will the Lord, your God, raise up for you from among your own kindred; that is the one to whom you shall listen.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 18:15 A prophet like me: from the context (opposition to the practices described in vv. 10–11) it seems that Moses is referring in general to all the true prophets who were to succeed him. This passage came to be understood in a quasi-Messianic sense in the New Testament (Mt 17:5; Jn 6:14; 7:40; Acts 3:22; 7:37).

11 The Lord used to speak to Moses face to face,(A) as a person speaks to a friend. Moses would then return to the camp, but his young assistant, Joshua, son of Nun, never left the tent.

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    face to face I speak to him,(A)
    plainly and not in riddles.
The likeness of the Lord he beholds.

Why, then, do you not fear to speak against my servant Moses?

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He let him hear his voice,
    and led him into the cloud,
Where he handed over the commandments,
    the law of life and understanding,[a]
That he might teach his precepts to Jacob,
    his judgments and decrees to Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 45:5 On God’s intimacy with Moses, see Ex 33:11; Nm 12:8; Dt 34:10.