For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
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Gill's Exposition
For the Lord had said to Moses,.... At the same time he had told it to the people:
say unto the children of Israel: Menachem, as quoted by Ainsworth, observes, that this is said in a way of mercy;…
Barnes' Notes
I will come up ... - Better; If I were to go up for one moment in the midst of thee, I should consume thee. That I may know ... - By that sign of their repentance Yahweh would decide in what way they…
Adam Clarke
Now put off thy ornaments from thee - "The Septuagint, in their translation, suppose that the children of Israel not only laid aside their ear-rings, and such like ornaments, in a time of professed…
Here is, I. The message which God sent by Moses to the children of Israel, signifying the continuance of the displeasure against them, and the bad terms they yet stood upon with God. This he must let…
Cambridge Bible
The people are here told to do what they have already done (v.4b), a clear proof that two narratives have been combined. In v.4 the removal of the ornaments is a spontaneous token of grief; in v.5 it…
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