Exodus 33:3

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Exodus 33:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of the land of Egypt, and go to the land that I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’

2 And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

3 Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”

4 When the people heard these bad tidings, they went into mourning, and no one put on any of his jewelry.

5 For the LORD had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I should go with you for a single moment, I would destroy you. Now take off your jewelry, and I will decide what to do with you.’”

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Exodus 3:8

I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Exodus 13:5

And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this service in this month.

Leviticus 20:24

But I have told you that you will inherit their land, since I will give it to you as an inheritance—a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the peoples.

Numbers 13:27

And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!

Numbers 14:8

If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.

Numbers 16:13

Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also appoint yourself as ruler over us?

Joshua 5:6

For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Jeremiah 11:5

This was in order to establish the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is to this day.” “Amen, LORD,” I answered.

Exodus 33:15

“If Your Presence does not go with us,” Moses replied, “do not lead us up from here.

Exodus 33:16

For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”

Exodus 33:17

So the LORD said to Moses, “I will do this very thing you have asked, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.”

Exodus 32:10

Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”

Exodus 32:14

So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.

Numbers 14:12

I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”

Deuteronomy 32:26

I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,

Deuteronomy 32:27

if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”

1 Samuel 2:30

Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.

Jeremiah 18:7

At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.

Jeremiah 18:8

But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.

Jeremiah 18:9

And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,

Jeremiah 18:10

and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.

Ezekiel 3:18

If I say to the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, and I will hold you responsible for his blood.

Ezekiel 3:19

But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself.

Ezekiel 33:13

If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but he then trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, then none of his righteous works will be remembered; he will die because of the iniquity he has committed.

Ezekiel 33:14

But if I tell the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ and he turns from his sin and does what is just and right—

Ezekiel 33:15

if he restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without practicing iniquity—then he will surely live; he will not die.

Ezekiel 33:16

None of the sins he has committed will be held against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live.

Jonah 3:4

On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”

Jonah 3:10

When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.

Exodus 32:9

The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

Exodus 34:9

“O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”

Deuteronomy 9:6

Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.

Deuteronomy 9:7

Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.

Deuteronomy 9:8

At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:9

When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

Deuteronomy 9:10

Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by the finger of God with the exact words that the LORD spoke to you out of the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly.

Deuteronomy 9:11

And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

Deuteronomy 9:12

And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”

Deuteronomy 9:13

The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

Psalms 78:8

Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Acts 7:51

You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

Exodus 23:21

Pay attention to him and listen to his voice; do not defy him, for he will not forgive rebellion, since My Name is in him.

Numbers 16:21

“Separate yourselves from this congregation so that I may consume them in an instant.”

Numbers 16:45

“Get away from this congregation so that I may consume them in an instant.” And Moses and Aaron fell facedown.

Amos 3:13

Hear and testify against the house of Jacob, declares the Lord GOD, the God of Hosts.

Amos 3:14

On the day I punish Israel for their transgressions, I will visit destruction on the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off, and they will fall to the ground.