1. And Jehovah said to Moses, Depart, go up hence, thou and the people that thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, into the land that I swore unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it,
2. (and I will send an angel before thee, and dispossess the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite,)
3. into a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou art a stiff-necked people, --lest I consume thee on the way.
4. And when the people heard this evil word, they mourned; and no man put on his ornaments.
5. Now Jehovah had said to Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked people: in one moment I will come up into the midst of thee and will consume thee. And now put off thine ornaments from thee, and I will know what I will do unto thee.
6. And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments at mount Horeb.