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For the Lord had told Moses to tell them, “You are a stubborn and rebellious people. If I were to travel with you for even a moment, I would destroy you. Remove your jewelry and fine clothes while I decide what to do with you.”

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23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
    test me and know my anxious thoughts.

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45 “Get away from all these people so that I can instantly destroy them!” But Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground.

46 And Moses said to Aaron, “Quick, take an incense burner and place burning coals on it from the altar. Lay incense on it, and carry it out among the people to purify them and make them right with the Lord.[a] The Lord’s anger is blazing against them—the plague has already begun.”

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Footnotes

  1. 16:46 Or to make atonement for them.

21 “Get away from all these people so that I may instantly destroy them!”

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The guilt[a] of my people
    is greater than that of Sodom,
where utter disaster struck in a moment
    and no hand offered help.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:6 Or punishment.

12 At that time the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies,
    called you to weep and mourn.
He told you to shave your heads in sorrow for your sins
    and to wear clothes of burlap to show your remorse.

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19 In an instant they are destroyed,
    completely swept away by terrors.

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20 In a moment they die.
    In the middle of the night they pass away;
    the mighty are removed without human hand.

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Remember how the Lord your God led you through the wilderness for these forty years, humbling you and testing you to prove your character, and to find out whether or not you would obey his commands.

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Go up to this land that flows with milk and honey. But I will not travel among you, for you are a stubborn and rebellious people. If I did, I would surely destroy you along the way.”

When the people heard these stern words, they went into mourning and stopped wearing their jewelry and fine clothes.

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12 “Don’t lay a hand on the boy!” the angel said. “Do not hurt him in any way, for now I know that you truly fear God. You have not withheld from me even your son, your only son.”

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21 I am going down to see if their actions are as wicked as I have heard. If not, I want to know.”

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