⁵ Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you."

²¹ I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come to me. If not, I will know."

¹² In that day did the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

²³ Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

¹⁹ How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

²⁰ In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, The mighty are taken away without hand.

² You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

⁴⁵ Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. They fell on their faces.

⁴⁶ Moses said to Aaron, Take your censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense thereon, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from Yahweh; the plague is begun.

²¹ Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.

³ to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way."

⁴ When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: and no one put on his jewelry.

¹² He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."

⁶ For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid on her.