Do not send us alone

12Then Moses said to Yahweh, “See, you are saying to me, ‘Bring up this people,’ but you have not made known to me whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you also have found favor in my sight.’”

13Now therefore, if I have found favor in your eyes, please make your ways known to me, so that I may know you, in order that I may find favor in your eyes. And consider that this nation is your people.

14And he said, “My presence will go, and I will give you rest.”

15Then he said to him, “If your presence does not go, do not bring us up from here.”

16For how then will it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not by your going with us, so that I and your people are distinguished from every people who are on the face of the earth?

17And Yahweh said to Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have spoken, because you have found favor in my eyes, and I know you by name.”