Exodus 33:5

Exodus 33:5

3 Go up ^ato a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, lest ^bI consume you on the way, for you are ^ca stiff-necked people.”

4 And when the people heard this bad news, ^athey mourned, ^band no one put on his ornaments.

5 For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. I could come up into your midst in one moment and consume you. Now therefore, take off your¹ ornaments, that I may ^aknow what to do to you.’ ”

6 So the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by Mount Horeb.

Moses Meets with the Lord

7 Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and ^acalled it the tabernacle of meeting. And it came to pass that everyone who ^bsought the Lord went out to the tabernacle of meeting which was outside the camp.

8 So it was, whenever Moses went out to the tabernacle, that all the people rose, and each man stood ^aat his tent door and watched Moses until he had gone into the tabernacle.

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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I will come up - As if he had said, ye deserve that I should do so. Put off thine ornaments, that I may know what to do with thee - That is, put thyself into the posture of a penitent, that the dispute may be determined in thy favour, and mercy may rejoice against judgment.

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