Exodus

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NASB	Exodus 24:10 and they saw the God of Israel; and under His feet there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
AMPLIFIED 2015	Exodus 24:10 and they saw [a manifestation of] the God of Israel; and under His feet there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, just as clear as the sky itself. [Ex 33:20-23; Deut 4:12; Ezek 28:14]

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Bible Question: What does "saw" as in "Saw Eloheim" in Exodus 24:9-11 mean?

If Moshe "saw" God in Chapter 24, why was he asking to see God in Chapter 33:18f?

Bible Answer: Hi there,

I did a bit of study on this question of yours and pulled up my Hebrew Old Testament (Tanach) on E-Sword and I found an interesting usage of words.

It would seem that they saw Jesus (Yeshua) not actually the LORD (ADONAI). I come to this conclusion because of one simple character that comes before the character for Elohim. "ayth" is literally entity, a corporeal being. So, I am persuaded that they saw Yeshua, God in the flesh, which is not a sin and therefore Moshe could still ask to see the face of YHWH, because he had not previously seen it.

As John Gill has written,
"And they saw the God of Israel,.... The Targum of Jonathan restrains this to Nadab and Abihu whereas it is doubtless true of Moses and Aaron, and the seventy elders, who all saw him, and who were witnesses to the people that it was a divine Person that spoke to Moses, and delivered the laws unto him, to be observed by them; which seems to be the reason of their being called up, and favoured with this sight which must not be understood as of anything criminal in them, as if they curiously looked and pried to see something they should not, for which they deserved some sort of punishment, as the Targum intimates; but of a privilege, and a very high one they were favoured with: and this sight they had was not by a vision of prophecy, or with the eyes of their understanding, but corporeally; they saw the Son of God, the God of Israel, in an human form, as a pledge and presage of his future incarnation, who is the Angel that spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, as Stephen says, and the Lord that was among the angels there, who afterwards became incarnate, and having done his work on earth, ascended on high, Acts 7:38."

May ADONAI bless you in your studies,
Talmid (Num 6:24-26)