^9 (A)And Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, they are ^(B)a stiff-necked people.

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

⁵ So Yahweh said to Moses, “Say to the sons of Israel, ‘You are ^(A)a stiff-necked people; should I go up in your midst for one moment, I would consume you. So now, put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what I shall do with you.’”

⁴¹ I also was walking in hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies—^(A)or if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled so that ^(B)they then make up for their iniquity,

¹⁴ for in the wilderness of Zin, during the strife of the congregation, ^(A)you rebelled against My ^[a]command ^[b]to treat Me as holy before their eyes at the water.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

²⁶ Egypt and Judah, and Edom and the sons of Ammon, and Moab and ^(A)all those inhabiting the desert who clip the hair on their temples; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are ^(B)uncircumcised of heart.”