Exodus 33:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now take off your ornaments, and I will decide what to do to you.’ ”

Cross References

Genesis 18:21

I must go down and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me, and if not, I will know.”

Genesis 22:12

He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

Job 34:20

In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.

Psalm 139:23

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts.

Psalm 73:19

How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!

Exodus 32:9

The Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, how stiff-necked they are.

Exodus 33:6

Therefore the Israelites stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and putting on sackcloth,

Isaiah 48:4

Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,

Lamentations 4:6

For the chastisement of my people has been greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, though no hand was laid on it.

Joel 2:12

Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

Numbers 16:21

“Separate yourselves from this congregation, so that I may consume them in a moment.”

Acts 7:51

“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.

Deuteronomy 8:2

Remember the long way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commandments.