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.’”

⁹ And he said, “^(A)If now I have found favor in Your sight, O Lord, I pray, let the Lord go along in our midst, even though ^[a](B)they are a stiff-necked people, and ^(C)pardon our iniquity and our sin, and ^(D)take us as Your own inheritance.”

⁵¹ “You men—^(A)stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears—are always resisting the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.