Exodus 33:3

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Summary

Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.

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Stiff-necked

Acts 7:51

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General references

Exodus 33:15

Numbers 13:27

Bible References

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Then Moses told the LORD, "If your presence does not go with us, don't bring us up from here.

Now let me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may consume them, but I'll make a great nation of you."

"That's why I'm going to attack them with pestilence and disinherit them. Instead, I'll make you a great nation even mightier than they are!"

"I said, "I will scatter them, erasing their memory from the human race,

"Therefore, the LORD God of Israel has declared, "I did, in fact, say that your family and your ancestor's family would walk before me forever,' but now the LORD declares, "Far be it from me! The one who honors me I'll honor, and the one who despises me is to be treated with contempt.

At one moment I may speak about a nation or a kingdom to uproot it, pull it down, or destroy it.

"So when I say to a wicked person, "You're about to die,' if you don't warn or instruct that wicked person that his behavior is wicked so he can live, that wicked person will die in his sin, but I'll hold you responsible for his death.

"If I tell the righteous person that he will certainly live, if he trusts in his own righteousness and commits evil, none of his righteousness will be remembered, and he will die because of the wrong that he commits.

Now Nineveh was a very large city, requiring a three-day journey to cross through it. As Jonah started into the city on the first day's journey, he proclaimed the message, "40 days more and Nineveh will be overthrown!"

Stiff-necked

Then the LORD told Moses, "I've seen these people and indeed they're obstinate.

He said, "If I've found favor in your sight, Lord, please, Lord, walk among us. Certainly this is an obstinate people, but pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your own inheritance."

Know that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving to you this good land to inherit, for you are a stubborn people."

They will not be like the rebellious generation of their ancestors, a rebellious generation, whose heart was not steadfast, and whose spirits were unfaithful to God.

"You stubborn people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.

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Be careful! Be sure to obey him. Don't rebel against him, because he won't forgive your transgression, since my Name is in him.

Now let me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may consume them, but I'll make a great nation of you."

"Separate yourselves from among this community, and I'll destroy them in a moment."

"Listen and testify against the house of Jacob," declares the Lord GOD, the God of the Heavenly Armies,

General references

Then Moses told the LORD, "If your presence does not go with us, don't bring us up from here.

"We arrived at the place where you've sent us," they reported, "and it certainly does flow with milk and honey. Furthermore, this is its fruit,