Exodus 33:13

Now if indeed I have found favor in Your sight, please let me know Your ways, that I may know You and find favor in Your sight. Remember that this nation is Your people.”

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — Moses speaks to the LORD immediately after God has told him to lead the people without specifying who will accompany him. Moses has just confirmed that God knows him by name; now he presses for something more concrete.

The words — נָא (na', "please") appears twice, bracketing the request to be shown God's ways, intensifying the plea beyond a single polite marker.

The thread — The same petition recurs in the Psalms: "Show me Your ways" (Ps. 25:4), "Teach me Your way" (Ps. 27:11), "Teach me the way of Your statutes" (Ps. 119:33). The pattern is a person asking God to make His path visible so they can walk it.

Why it lands — The verse ties knowing God's ways directly to maintaining favor, not to abstract theology. It asks the reader to treat knowledge of God as a relational necessity, not an optional intellectual exercise.

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The Hebrew words

King James Version

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.

Cross-references

Psalms 119:33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes, and I will keep them to the end.
Psalms 25:4 Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths.
Psalms 27:11 Teach me Your way, O LORD, and lead me on a level path, because of my oppressors.
Psalms 86:11 Teach me Your way, O LORD, that I may walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.
Deuteronomy 9:26 And I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Isaiah 30:21 And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”
John 17:3 Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
Ephesians 1:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.
Colossians 1:10 so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
Deuteronomy 9:29 But they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and outstretched arm.”