Exodus 24:11
Exodus 24:1111But God did not lay His hand on the nobles of Israel; they saw Him, and they ate and drank.
JWs handle by arguing that the elders saw a representation of God, not God himself. The NWT's handling is revealing: verse 10 says "they saw the God of Israel" (straightforward seeing), but verse 11 shifts the Hebrew chazah ("to see, behold") to "they got a vision of the true God" — inserting the word "vision" to soften the encounter. The elders' eating and drinking in God's presence is treated as ceremonial, not as evidence of a physical divine encounter.
records that seventy elders of Israel "saw the God of Israel" and then "ate and drank" in his presence — a physical meal in the company of a visible divine person. The Hebrew verb chazah in verse 11 means "to see, behold" — the NWT's insertion of "vision" has no basis in the text. You do not eat and drink in a vision. If the Father has never been seen (, ), yet the elders physically saw "the God of Israel" and survived, the person present must be the pre-incarnate Son. The NWT's handling of this passage exposes a pattern: where the plain text implies a visible divine person, the translation softens the language to preserve the doctrine that God is entirely invisible and unknowable apart from angelic mediation.