Exodus 33:5

For the Lord said to the children of Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked people; take heed lest I bring on you another plague, and destroy you: now then put off your glorious apparel, and your ornaments, and I will show thee what I will do to thee.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.

In Context

4And the people having heard this grievous saying, mourned in mourning apparel.

6So the sons of Israel took off their ornaments and their array at the mount of Horeb.

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Cross References

Genesis 22:12And he said, Lay not thy hand upon the child, neither do anything to him, for now I know that thou fearest God, and for my sake thou hast not spared thy beloved son.

Exodus 33:3And I will bring thee into a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up with thee, because thou art a stiff-necked people, lest I consume thee by the way.

Job 34:20But it shall turn out vanity to them, to cry and beseech a man; 1 For they dealt unlawfully, the poor being turned aside from their right. 1

Isaiah 48:4I know that thou art stubborn, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy forehead brazen.

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 →

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