Exodus 33:1-6

International Standard Version

The Lord Instructs Israel to Leave

33 The Lord told Moses, “Go up^[a] from here, you and the people whom you brought out of Egypt, to the land about which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob saying, ‘I’ll give it to your descendants.’^{[b] 2} I’ll send an angel in front of you and I’ll drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. ³ Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey, but I won’t go up among you, because you are an obstinate^[c] people, and otherwise I might consume you along the way.”

⁴ When the people heard this troubling word, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments. ⁵ The Lord had told Moses, “Say to the Israelis, ‘You are an obstinate people,^[d] and if for one moment I went up among you, I would put an end to you. Now take off your ornaments so I may decide^[e] what to do with you.’” ⁶ So the Israelis did not wear^[f] their ornaments from Mount Horeb onward.