The Lord replied: my Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest. The most important promise in the post-calf restoration: my Presence will go with you. The threat of verse 3 — I will not go with you — is answered by the personal assurance of verse 14. The Presence — panim, literally face — is the full personal divine presence, not merely an angelic representative. Matthew 28:20 closes with the same promise in new covenant form: surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. The Presence that Moses secured through his intercession is the Presence that Christ permanently guarantees to all who belong to Him.

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