Exodus 33:5
And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Say unto the children of Israel: Ye are a stiffnecked people; if I go up into the midst of thee for one moment, I shall consume thee; therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.'
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
4And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned; and no man did put on him his ornaments.
6And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from mount Horeb onward.
Cross References
Genesis 22:12And he said: 'Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him; for now I know that thou art a God-fearing man, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from Me.'
Exodus 33:3unto a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people; lest I consume thee in the way.'
Numbers 16:45(17-10) 'Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.' And they fell upon their faces.
Job 34:20In a moment they die, even at midnight; the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away without hand.
Psalms 139:23Search me, O God, and know my heart, try me, and know my thoughts;
Isaiah 48:4Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
Matthew Henry on Exodus 33:2-7
The Israelites Reproved. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And the Lord said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it: 2 And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: 3 Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for… Read the whole commentary →