3. Unto the land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people lest I consume thee in the way.
4. And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned, and no one put on their ornaments.
5. For the Lord had said unto Moses, Say unto the sons of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people; I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment and consume thee; therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee that I may know what to do unto thee.
6. Then the sons of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from Mount Horeb on.
7. And Moses took the tabernacle and pitched it outside the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the tabernacle of the testimony. And it came to pass that every one who sought the Lord went out unto the tabernacle of the testimony, which was outside the camp.