What does Exodus 33:14 mean?

And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
Exodus 33:14, King James Version

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Exodus 33:12-16

  1. 12 And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
  2. 13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
  3. 14 And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
  4. 15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.
  5. 16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.

Study note

Tyndale Open Study Notes (CC BY-SA 4.0).

33:14 I will give you rest: Literally a place to roost, as in a place where a bird can land and be at peace. Ever since Abraham left Ur, he and his descendants had had no such place.

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About the book of Exodus

Author
Moses, according to Jewish and Christian tradition (authorship debated)
When
15th or 13th century BC by tradition; final form debated
Period
Egito e êxodo, c. 1800 a 1400 a.C. (in Portuguese)

Authorship: the book itself or Christian tradition. Approximate dates, as in Carson and Moo, An Introduction to the New Testament, and Longman and Dillard, An Introduction to the Old Testament.

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