Exodus 33:5
And YHWH says to Moses, “Say to the sons of Israel: You [are] a stiff-necked people; [in] one moment I could come up into your midst and could have consumed you; and now, put down your ornaments from off you, and I know what I do to you”;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4And the people hear this sad thing, and mourn; and none puts his ornaments on him.
6and the sons of Israel take off their ornaments at Mount Horeb.
Cross References
Genesis 22:12and He says, “Do not put forth your hand to the youth, nor do anything to him, for now I have known that you are fearing God, and have not withheld your son, your only one, from Me.”
Exodus 33:3[Go up] to a land flowing with milk and honey, for I do not go up in your midst, for you [are] a stiff-necked people—lest I consume you in the way.”
Numbers 16:45“Get up from the midst of this congregation, and I consume them in a moment”; and they fall on their faces,
Job 34:20[In] a moment they die, || And at midnight people shake, || And they pass away, || And they remove the mighty without hand.
Psalms 139:23Search me, O God, and know my heart, || Try me, and know my thoughts,
Isaiah 48:4From My knowing that you are obstinate, || And your neck—a sinew of iron, || And your forehead—bronze,
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 →