The Command to Leave Sinai

Exodus 33

1 The Lord said to Moses, "Depart; go up from here, you o and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, 'To p your offspring I will give it.' 2 I will send an q angel before you, r and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 3 s Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; t but I will not go up among you, u lest I consume you on the way, for you are a v stiff-necked people."

4 When the people heard this disastrous word, they w mourned, and x no one put on his ornaments. 5 For the Lord had said to Moses, "Say to the people of Israel, 'You are a v stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would y consume you. So now x take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do with you.'" 6 Therefore the people of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.

  1. Cross References
    Exodus 32:7
    And the Lord said to Moses, "Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.
  2. Cross References
    Exodus 32:13
    Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.'
    Genesis 12:7
    Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
  3. Cross References
    Exodus 14:19
    Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them.
  4. Cross References
    Exodus 13:5
    And when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this service in this month.
  5. Cross References
    Exodus 3:8
    And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
  6. Cross References
    Exodus 33:15 - 17
    And he said to him, "If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here.
  7. Cross References
    Exodus 32:10
    Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you.
    Numbers 16:21
    "Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment."
    Numbers 16:45
    Get away from the midst of this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment." And they fell on their faces.
  8. Cross References
    Exodus 32:9
    And the Lord said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
  9. Cross References
    Numbers 14:39
    When Moses told these words to all the people of Israel, the people mourned greatly.
  10. Cross References
    Ezekiel 24:17
    Sigh, but not aloud; make no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban, and put your shoes on your feet; do not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
    Ezekiel 24:23
    Your turbans shall be on your heads and your shoes on your feet; you shall not mourn or weep, but you shall rot away in your iniquities and groan to one another.
    Ezekiel 26:16
    Then all the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones and remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground and tremble every moment and be appalled at you.
  11. Cross References
    Exodus 33:3
    Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.
  12. Cross References
    Exodus 32:12
    Why should the Egyptians say, 'With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people.
  13. Cross References
    Exodus 33:4
    When the people heard this disastrous word, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments.
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