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Berean Standard Bible

“For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?””

Exodus 33:16

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After the golden calf, God tells Moses that he will send an angel before the people but will not go with them because they are stiff-necked. Moses pleads for God's presence.

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Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”

World English Bible (WEB)

For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn’t it that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?”

King James Version (KJV)

For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.

American Standard Version (ASV)

For wherein now shall it be known that I have found favor in thy sight, I and thy people? is it not in that thou goest with us, so that we are separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth?

Bible in Basic English (BBE)

For is not the fact of your going with us the sign that I and this people have grace in your eyes, so that we, that is, I and your people, are separate from all other people on the face of the earth?

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Reina-Valera 1909 (RVR 1909)

¿Y en qué se conocerá aquí que he hallado gracia en tus ojos, yo y tu pueblo, sino en andar tú con nosotros, y que yo y tu pueblo seamos apartados de todos los pueblos que están sobre la faz de la tierra?

Sagradas Escrituras 1569 (SE 1569)

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Nueva Biblia Viva (NBV)

Si no vas con nosotros, ¿quién sabrá que mi pueblo y yo contamos con tu ayuda, y que somos diferentes a los demás pueblos que habitan la tierra?

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