⁸ With him I speak ^(A)mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in ^(B)riddles, and he beholds ^(C)the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

⁹ When Moses entered the tent, the ^(A)pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the Lord^[a] would speak with Moses. ¹⁰ And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, each at his tent door. ¹¹ Thus ^(B)the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his ^(C)assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.