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This was because the Lord said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stubborn people. I might destroy you even if I travel with you only a short time. So take off all your jewelry while I decide[a] what to do with you.’” So the Israelites stopped wearing their jewelry at Mount Horeb.

The Temporary Meeting Tent

Moses used to take a tent a short way outside the camp. He called it “the meeting tent.[b]” Anyone who wanted to ask something from the Lord would go to the meeting tent outside the camp.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 33:5 jewelry … decide This is a wordplay in Hebrew, but people often wore jewelry to remind them of their false gods.
  2. Exodus 33:7 meeting tent This is probably a tent that Moses used only until the real Meeting Tent was built.

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