Exodus 32:30–33:6

³⁰Now it happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people, “^aYou yourselves have ¹committed a great sin; but now I am going up to Yahweh, perhaps I can ^bmake atonement for your sin.”

³¹Then Moses returned to Yahweh and said, “Alas, this people has ¹committed a great sin, and they have made ^2agods of gold for themselves.

³²“But now, if You will forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out from Your ^abook which You have written!”

³³And Yahweh said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, ^aI will blot him out of My book.

³⁴“But now go, guide the people ^awhere I told you. Behold, ^bMy angel shall go before you; nevertheless ^cin the day when I ¹punish, ^dI will ²punish them for their sin.”

^35aThen Yahweh smote the people because of ^bwhat they did with the calf which Aaron had made.

CHAPTER 33

Moses and the Tent of Meeting

¹Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go! Go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land of which ^aI swore to Abraham, ^bto Isaac, and ^cto Jacob, saying, ‘^dTo your seed I will give it.’

²“And I will send ^aan angel before you, and ^bI will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

³“Go up to a land ^aflowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst because you are ^ba stiff-necked people, lest ^cI consume you on the way.”

⁴Then the people heard this ¹sad word and ^awent into mourning; and none of them put on his ornaments.

⁵So Yahweh said to Moses, “Say to the sons of Israel, ‘You are ^aa stiff-necked people; should I go up in your midst for one moment, I would consume you. So now, put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what I shall do with you.’”

⁶So the sons of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.