Exodus 33:5

New English Translation

For the Lord had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up among you for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments, that I may know what I should do to you.’”

Cross References

Genesis 18:21

that I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know.”

Genesis 22:12

“Do not harm the boy!” the angel said. “Do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me.”

Job 34:20

In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.

Psalm 139:23

Examine me, and probe my thoughts! Test me, and know my concerns!

Psalm 73:19

How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!

Exodus 32:9

Then the Lord said to Moses: “I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are!

Exodus 33:6

So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments by Mount Horeb.

Isaiah 22:12

At that time the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and sackcloth.

Isaiah 48:4

I did this because I know how stubborn you are. Your neck muscles are like iron and your forehead like bronze.

Lamentations 4:6

The punishment of my people exceeded that of of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment with no one to help her. ז (Zayin)

Joel 2:12

“Yet even now,” the Lord says, “return to me with all your heart – with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Tear your hearts, not just your garments!”

Numbers 16:21

“Separate yourselves from among this community, that I may consume them in an instant.”

Acts 7:51

“You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!

Deuteronomy 8:2

Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the desert so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.