Exodus 32:30–33:6

³⁰And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, ^kYe have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the Lord; ^lperadventure I shall ^mmake an atonement for your sin. ³¹And Moses ⁿreturned unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have ^omade them gods of gold. ³²Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin ^p; and if not, ^qblot me, I pray thee, ^rout of thy book which thou hast written. ³³And the Lord said unto Moses, ^sWhosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. ³⁴Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: ^tbehold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them. ³⁵And the Lord plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

XXXIII.And the Lord said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou ^aand the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ^bUnto thy seed will I give it: ²and I will send ^can angel before thee; ^dand I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: ^3eunto a land flowing with milk and honey: ^ffor I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a ^gstiffnecked people: lest ^hI consume thee in the way. ⁴And when the people heard these evil tidings, ⁱthey mourned: ^kand no man did put on him his ornaments. ⁵For the Lord had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, ^lYe are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in ^ma moment, and ⁿconsume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee. ⁶And the children of Israel stript themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.