The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: and the Jebusite:
EXO 33:3 Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up
in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume
thee in the way.
EXO 33:4 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned:
and no man did put on him his ornaments.
EXO 33:5 For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of
Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of
thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments
from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
EXO 33:6 And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their
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