Verse 5

Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.'"

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 18:21 : 21 I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."
  • Gen 22:12 : 12 He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
  • Exod 33:3-4 : 3 to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way." 4 When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: and no one put on his jewelry.
  • Num 16:21 : 21 "Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!"
  • Num 16:45-46 : 45 "Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!" They fell on their faces. 46 Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, and put fire from off the altar in it, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun."
  • Deut 8:2 : 2 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
  • Job 34:20 : 20 In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.
  • Ps 73:19 : 19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
  • Ps 139:23 : 23 Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
  • Isa 22:12 : 12 In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:
  • Lam 4:6 : 6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid on her.