33:1 The Lord said to Moses, “Go up ¹  from here, you and the people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land I promised on oath ²  to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ ³  33:2 I will send an angel ⁴  before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. ⁵  33:3 Go up ⁶  to a land flowing with milk and honey. But ⁷  I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you ⁸  on the way.”

33:4 When the people heard this troubling word ⁹  they mourned; ¹⁰  no one put on his ornaments. 33:5 For ¹¹  the Lord had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up among you for a moment, ¹²  I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments, ¹³  that I may know ¹⁴  what I should do to you.’” ¹⁵