⁹ And the Lord said to Moses, ^(A)“I have seen this people, and indeed it is a ^[a]stiff-necked people!

Israel Resists the Holy Spirit

⁵¹ “You ^(A)stiff-necked^[a] and ^(B)uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

¹³ “Furthermore ^(A)the Lord spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed ^(B)they are a ^[a]stiff-necked people.

⁹ Then he said, “If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, ^(A)let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a ^(B)stiff-necked^[a] people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as ^(C)Your inheritance.”

⁵ For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. I could come up into your midst in one moment and consume you. Now therefore, take off your ^[a]ornaments, that I may ^(A)know what to do to you.’ ”

³ Go up ^(A)to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, lest ^(B)I ^[a]consume you on the way, for you are a ^(C)stiff-necked^[b] people.”

^27 (A)for I know your rebellion and your ^(B)stiff neck. If today, while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the Lord, then how much more after my death?

⁸ Now do not be ^(A)stiff-necked,^[a] as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord; and enter His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever, and serve the Lord your God, ^(B)that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.