KJV King James Version
Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
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Exodus 23:20
Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Behold, I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.
WEB World English Bible
“Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
ASV American Standard Version
Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee by the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘Lo, I am sending a messenger before thee to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee in unto the place which I have prepared;
Surrounding context — Exodus 23
17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name [is] in him.
22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
23 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, [and] the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
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הִנֵּ֨הH2009 · hin.nehbeholdאָנֹכִ֜יH595 · a.no.khiIשֹׁלֵ֤חַH7971 · sha.lachto send: departמַלְאָךְ֙H4397 · ma.le.akhmessengerלְפָנֶ֔יךָH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeלִשְׁמָרְךָ֖H8104 · sha.marto keep: obeyבַּדָּ֑רֶךְH1870 · de.rekhway: conductוְלַהֲבִ֣יאֲךָ֔H935 · boto come (in): comeאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)הַמָּק֖וֹםH4725 · ma.qomplaceאֲשֶׁ֥רH834 · a.sherwhichהֲכִנֹֽתִי׃H3559 · kunto establish: prepare
Cross-references
Exodus 33:14And he said, My presence shall go [with thee], and I will give thee rest.Psalm 91:11For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.Exodus 32:34Therefore now go, lead the people unto [the place] of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.Exodus 14:19And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:Exodus 33:2And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:Isaiah 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.John 14:3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also.Matthew 25:34Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:Malachi 3:1Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.Numbers 20:16And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we [are] in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:Joshua 5:13And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, [Art] thou for us, or for our adversaries?Joshua 6:2And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, [and] the mighty men of valour.Exodus 15:17Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, [in] the place, O LORD, [which] thou hast made for thee to dwell in, [in] the Sanctuary, O Lord, [which] thy hands have established.Exodus 3:2-6And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush [was] not consumed.Genesis 48:16The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.Genesis 15:18In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:1 Corinthians 10:9-10Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
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