Discovery BoxExodus 10:29 
Context10:29 Moses said, “As you wish! 1 I will not see your face again.” 2
Exodus 33:20
Context33:20 But he added, “You cannot see my face, for no one can 3 see me and live.” 4
Exodus 34:33
Context34:33 When Moses finished 5 speaking 6 with them, he would 7 put a veil on his face.
1 tn Heb “Thus you have spoken.”
2 tn This is a verbal hendiadys construction: “I will not add again [to] see.”
3 tn In view of the use of the verb “can, be able to” in the first clause, this imperfect tense is given a potential nuance.
4 tn Gesenius notes that sometimes a negative statement takes the place of a conditional clause; here it is equal to “if a man sees me he does not live” (GKC 498 §159.gg). The other passages that teach this are Gen 32:30; Deut 4:33, 5:24, 26; Judg 6:22, 13:22, and Isa 6:5.
5 tn Heb “and Moses finished”; the clause is subordinated as a temporal clause to the next clause.
6 tn The Piel infinitive construct is the object of the preposition; the whole phrase serves as the direct object of the verb “finished.”
7 tn Throughout this section the actions of Moses and the people are frequentative. The text tells what happened regularly.
