Exodus 34:29

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Summary

And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

Wist

The skin

Bible References

Wist

For he did not know what to say, because they were much afraid.

And coming back again he found them asleep, for their eyes were heavy; and they did not know what to say to him.

"What made you search for me?" he answered. "Did not you know that I must be in my Father's House?"

But the man who had been restored did not know who it was; for Jesus had moved away, because there was a crowd there.

Peter followed him out, not knowing that what was happening under the angel's guidance was real, but thinking that he was seeing a vision.

"I did not know, Brothers, that it was the High Priest," said Paul, "for Scripture says--'Of the Ruler of thy People thou shalt speak no ill'."

The skin

There his appearance was transformed before their eyes; his face shown like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light.

As he was praying, the aspect of his face was changed, and his clothing became of a glittering whiteness.

The eyes of all the members of the Council were riveted upon Stephen, and they saw his face looking like the face of an angel.

If the system of religion which involved Death, embodied in a written Law and engraved on stones, began amid such glory, that the Israelites were unable to gaze at the face of Moses on account of its glory, though it was but a passing glory,

in his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like 'the sun in the fulness of its power.'

Then I saw another mighty angel, descending from Heaven. His robe was a cloud; over his head was the rainbow; his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire;