“And the Lord said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:”
Then the Lord said to Moses: leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of Egypt, and go up to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, I will give it to your descendants. The command to depart comes immediately after the golden calf judgment — the mission is not cancelled, but the relationship has been strained. The land promise to the patriarchs remains the destination; the question raised in the verses that follow is whether God's presence will accompany the journey. Acts 7:45 records that the tabernacle came into the land that God drove out before them — the journey commissioned here is the journey the New Testament looks back on as Israel's foundational wilderness pilgrimage.
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