Moses’s Radiant Face

²⁹ As Moses descended from Mount Sinai – with the two tablets of the testimony in his hands as he descended the mountain – he did not realise that the skin of his face shone as a result of his speaking with the Lord.^{[a](A) 30} When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face shone!^(B) They were afraid to come near him. ³¹ But Moses called out to them, so Aaron and all the leaders of the community returned to him, and Moses spoke to them. ³² Afterwards all the Israelites came near, and he commanded them to do everything the Lord had told him on Mount Sinai. ³³ When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face. ³⁴ But whenever Moses went before the Lord to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he came out. After he came out, he would tell the Israelites what he had been commanded,^{(C) 35} and the Israelites would see that Moses’s face^[b] was radiant. Then Moses would put the veil over his face again until he went to speak with the Lord.

³⁷ They answered him, ‘Allow us to sit at your right and at your left in your glory.’^(A)

³² Peter and those with him were in a deep sleep,^[a](A) and when they became fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men who were standing with him.

²⁴ ‘Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am,^(A) so that they will see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the world’s foundation.

¹⁸ We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at^[a](A) the glory of the Lord^(B) and are being transformed^(C) into the same image^(D) from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.^[b]

¹⁸ But grow in the grace and knowledge^(A) of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity.^[a](B)