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When the people heard this bad news, they mourned and didn’t put on their jewellery.(A)

For the Lord said to Moses, ‘Tell the Israelites: You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up with you for a single moment, I would destroy you. Now take off your jewellery, and I will decide what to do with you.’ So the Israelites remained stripped of their jewellery from Mount Horeb onward.

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