Exodus 33:5

Adonai said to Moses [Drawn out], “Tell the children of Israel [God prevails], ‘You are a stiff-necked people. + 33:5. Quoted in Acts 7:51 If I were to go up into the middle of you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.’”

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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

4When the people sh'ma ·heard obeyed· this evil news, they mourned: and no one put on his jewelry.

6The children of Israel [God prevails] stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb [Desert] onward.

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Cross References

Genesis 22:12He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

Exodus 33:3to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, + 33:3. Quoted in Acts 7:51 lest I consume you on the way.”

Numbers 16:45“Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!” They fell on their faces.

Psalms 139:23+ 139:23 (23-24) MPr: Rabbinic Tradition says, in the hour when King Messiah comes, He will stand on the roof of the Temple and proclaim the hour of their deliverance has come. Those who believe will rejoice in the light that had risen upon them (Is 60:1), “Arise, shine, for thy light is come.” This light is for those who believe only (Is 60:2), “For darkness shall cover the earth.” In that same hour, God uses the light of the Messiah and of Israel to shine on all nations that they should walk in the light of Messiah and of Israel (Is 60:3), “The Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.” (Ps 139:23-24 in Yalkut, vol. ii. Par. 359, p. 56 c.). (Mark 16:15; Luke 4:16-22, 19:41-48; John 10:26-28, 10:16; Acts 1:8, 13:46-47) Search me, God, and know my heart. 2 Try me, and know my thoughts. 1

Isaiah 48:4Because I knew that you are obstinate, 2 and your neck is an iron sinew, 2 and your brow bronze; 1

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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