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.”

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.’ ”

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.”

⁶ Therefore understand that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a ^(A)stiff-necked^[a] people.

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.