1. The Lord said to Moses, "Go and leave this place, you and the people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt. Go to the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I’ll give it to your descendants.’
2. I’ll send a messenger before you. I’ll drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
3. Go to this land full of milk and honey. But I won’t go up with you because I would end up destroying you along the way since you are a stubborn people."
4. When the people heard the bad news, they were sorry. No one put on any jewelry,