Exodus 33:4-6
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[4] When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: and no one put on his jewelry. [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." [6] The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageEgypt was the land from which God had delivered Israel, and Mount Horeb (often identified with Sinai) was the wilderness mountain where Israel received God’s covenant and law. In this passage, God’s threat not to go with them from Horeb toward the promised land exposes the seriousness of their sin and leads them to mourn.
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Exodus 33:4-6 mentions Egypt and Mount Horeb.
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