1. And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, `Go, ascend from this [place], thou and the people, whom thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I have sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, To thy seed I give it,'
2. (and I have sent before thee a messenger, and have cast out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite,)
3. unto a land flowing with milk and honey, for I do not go up in thy midst, for thou [art] a stiff-necked people--lest I consume thee in the way.'
4. And the people hear this sad thing, and mourn; and none put his ornaments on him.
5. And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Say unto the sons of Israel, Ye [are] a stiff-necked people; one moment--I come up into thy midst, and have consumed thee; and now, put down thine ornaments from off thee, and I know what I do to thee;'
6. and the sons of Israel take off their ornaments at mount Horeb.