⁵ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Say unto the sons of Israel, Ye `are' a stiff-necked people; one moment -- I come up into thy midst, and have consumed thee; and now, put down thine ornaments from off thee, and I know what I do to thee;'

²¹ I go down now, and see whether according to its cry which is coming unto Me they have done completely -- and if not -- I know;'

¹² And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth,

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

¹⁹ How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors.

²⁰ `In' a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand.

² and thou hast remembered all the way which Jehovah thy God hath caused thee to go these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble thee to try thee, to know that which `is' in thy heart, whether thou dost keep His commands or not.

⁴⁵ `Get you up from the midst of this company, and I consume them in a moment;' and they fall on their faces,

⁴⁶ and Moses saith unto Aaron, `Take the censer, and put on it fire from off the altar, and place perfume, and go, hasten unto the company, and make atonement for them, for the wrath hath gone out from the presence of Jehovah -- the plague hath begun.'

²¹ `Be ye separated from the midst of this company, and I consume them in a moment;'

³ unto a land flowing with milk and honey, for I do not go up in thy midst, for thou `art' a stiff-necked people -- lest I consume thee in the way.'

⁴ And the people hear this sad thing, and mourn; and none put his ornaments on him.

¹² and He saith, `Put not forth thine hand unto the youth, nor do anything to him, for now I have known that thou art fearing God, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only one, from Me.'

⁶ And greater is the iniquity of the daughter of my people, Than the sin of Sodom, That was overturned as `in' a moment, And no hands were stayed on her.