fear, Moses therefore covered his face with a veil when speaking to the people and when giving them all the commands the Lord had given him on Mount Sinai. Unfortunately, the King James English translation of the Bible, as well as Luther’s German translation, conveys the idea that the chief purpose of the veil on Moses’ face was to hide the Lord’s glory so that the people would not be afraid of Moses. The fact of the matter is, as the New International Version and other translations correctly convey,
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