Exodus 33:1-6 ▼

1 The LORD told Moses, |Go up 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.'

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 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, 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 what to do with you.'|

6 So the Israelis did not wear their ornaments from Mount Horeb onward.