Exodus 33:14

Jehovah promises that His presence shall go with Moses (as the representative of His people), and that He will give him and with him the people rest. The words do not however seem very suitable as an answer to v.13; and Di."s suggestion is a plausible one, that vv.14 16 are misplaced, and should follow Exodus 34:9 (so also McNeile, p. xxxvi), where, it may be noticed, Moses is still praying for what, if Exodus 33:14 is in its right place, has been already granted (cf. p. 367).

presence lit. face, i.e. the person himself (2 Samuel 17:11), in so far as he is present (LXX. αὐτὸς προπορεύσομαι): cf., of God, Deuteronomy 4:37 (-brought thee out with his presence" [LXX. αὐτός]), Isaiah 63:9 (-the angel of his presencesaved them," i.e. the angel in whom His presence was manifest, cf. Exodus 23:21; but LXX. -No messenger or angel, (but) his presence(αὐτὸς) saved them"). The expression can hardly, however, have been intended to denote Jehovah's entireBeing: it must rather (DB.v. 639 b) have denoted His Being either as manifested in an angel more fully than in the ordinary -angel of Jehovah" (Bä.), or as others think (Lagrange, Rev. Bibl.1903, p. 215; Kennedy, Samuel, p. 323 f.), as attaching to the Ark (cf. p. 280).

give thee rest viz. in the assured possession of Canaan: cf. Deuteronomy 3:20; Deuteronomy 12:10; Joshua 22:4.