With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of YY shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moshe?
And YY spake unto Moshe face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Y'howshu`a, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the Right Hand of the Majesty on high;
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that YY spake unto you in Horev out of the midst of the fire:
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou YY art among this people, that thou YY art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of YY before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
And when Moshe was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two keruvims: and he spake unto him.