◄ Exodus 33:6 ►
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Good News Translation
So after they left Mount Sinai, the people of Israel no longer wore jewelry.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore the Israelites stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.

Contemporary English Version
and after leaving Mount Sinai, they stopped wearing fancy jewelry.

New American Bible
So, from Mount Horeb onward, the Israelites stripped off their ornaments.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So the children of Israel laid aside their ornaments by Mount Horeb.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So the children of Israel laid aside their ornaments by Mount Horeb.

Exodus 33:4 And the people hearing these very bad tidings, mourned: and no man put on his ornaments according to custom.

Exodus 32:3 And the people did what he had commanded, bringing the earrings to Aaron.

Jeremiah 2:19 Thy own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy apostasy shall rebuke thee. Know thou, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing for thee, to have left the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not with thee, saith the Lord the God of hosts.

Context
The Command to Leave Sinai
…5And the Lord said to Moses: Say to the children of Israel: Thou art a stiffnecked people, once I shall come up in the midst of thee, and shall destroy thee. Now presently lay aside thy ornaments, that I may know what to do to thee. 6So the children of Israel laid aside their ornaments by Mount Horeb.
Cross References
Exodus 3:1
Now Moses fed the sheep of Jethro, his father in law, the priest of Madian: and he drove the flock to the inner parts of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb.

Exodus 33:5
And the Lord said to Moses: Say to the children of Israel: Thou art a stiffnecked people, once I shall come up in the midst of thee, and shall destroy thee. Now presently lay aside thy ornaments, that I may know what to do to thee.

Exodus 33:7
Moses also taking the tabernacle, pitched it without the camp afar off, and called the name thereof, The tabernacle of the covenant. And all the people, that had any question, went forth to the tabernacle of the covenant, without the camp.

Exodus 33:5
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