Exodus 33:11-13

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¹¹ Inside the tent the Lord spoke to Moses face-to-face, as a man speaks to his friend. Afterwards Moses would return to the camp, but the young man who assisted him, Joshua (son of Nun), stayed behind in the Tabernacle.

¹² Moses talked there with the Lord and said to him, “You have been telling me, ‘Take these people to the Promised Land,’ but you haven’t told me whom you will send with me. You say you are my friend,^[a] and that I have found favor before you; ¹³ please, if this is really so, guide me clearly along the way you want me to travel^[b] so that I will understand you and walk acceptably before you. For don’t forget that this nation is your people.”