Exodus 33:6 So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments at Mount Horeb.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments at Mount Horeb.

English Standard Version
Therefore the people of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.

New American Standard Bible
So the sons of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So the Israelites remained stripped of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.

International Standard Version
So the Israelis did not wear their ornaments from Mount Horeb onward.

American Standard Version
And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from mount Horeb onward.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So the children of Israel laid aside their ornaments by mount Horeb.

Darby Bible Translation
And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments at mount Horeb.

Young's Literal Translation
and the sons of Israel take off their ornaments at mount Horeb.

Cross References

Exodus 3:1
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.

Exodus 33:5
For the LORD had said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You are a stiff necked people: I will come up into the middle of you in a moment, and consume you: therefore now put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do to you.

Exodus 33:7
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 to the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

33:1-6 Those whom God pardons, must be made to know what their sin deserved. Let them go forward as they are; this was very expressive of God's displeasure. Though he promises to make good his covenant with Abraham, in giving them Canaan, yet he denies them the tokens of his presence they had been blessed with. The people mourned for their sin. Of all the bitter fruits and consequences of sin, true penitents most lament, and dread most, God's departure from them. Canaan itself would be no pleasant land without the Lord's presence. Those who parted with ornaments to maintain sin, could do no less than lay aside ornaments, in token of sorrow and shame for it.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

5. put off thy ornaments—In seasons of mourning, it is customary with Eastern people to lay aside all gewgaws and divest themselves of their jewels, their gold, and every thing rich and splendid in their dress. This token of their sorrow the Lord required of His offending people.

that I may know what to do unto thee—The language is accommodated to the feeble apprehensions of men. God judges the state of the heart by the tenor of the conduct. In the case of the Israelites, He cherished a design of mercy; and the moment He discerned the first symptoms of contrition, by their stripping off their ornaments, as penitents conscious of their error and sincerely sorrowful, this fact added its weight to the fervency of Moses' prayers, and gave them prevalence with God in behalf of the people.