"For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye {are} a stiffnecked people: I will come up into th…" — Exodus 33:5

Exodus 33:5 · KJV

“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.”

— Exodus 33:5

Verse 4

And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.

Verse 6

And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.

Exodus 33 — Context

Unto 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.

And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.

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.

And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.

And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, {that} every one which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which {was} without the camp.

Cross References

Numbers 16:21

Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.

Deuteronomy 8:2

And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, {and} to prove thee, to know what {was} in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

Exodus 33:3-4

Unto 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.

Psalms 139:23

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

Numbers 16:45-46

Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.

Job 34:20

In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand. {the mighty...: Heb. they shall take away the mighty}

Isaiah 22:12

And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

Psalms 73:19

How are they {brought} into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.