Exodus 33:8-9

8Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would rise up, and aeach would stand at his tent door, and watch Moses until he had gone into the tent. 9When Moses entered the tent, the bpillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the Lord
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would speak with Moses.

Exodus 33:11

11Thus dthe Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his eassistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

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