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Exodus 33:3

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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17 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
אֶל־'el-toH413 →
אֶ֛רֶץ'E.retza landH776 →
זָבַ֥תza.Vatflowing ofH2100 →
חָלָ֖בcha.LavmilkH2461 →
וּדְבָ֑שׁu.de.Vashand honeyH1706 →
כִּי֩kiforH3588 →
לֹ֨אlo'notH3808 →
אֶֽעֱלֶ֜ה'e.'e.LehI will go upH5927 →
בְּקִרְבְּךָ֗be.kir.be.Chain midst yourH7130 →
כִּ֤יkiforH3588 →
עַם־'am-[are] a peopleH5971 →
קְשֵׁה־ke.sheh-stiff ofH7186 →
עֹ֙רֶף֙'o.refneckH6203 →
אַ֔תָּה'A.tahyouH859 →
פֶּן־pen-lestH6435 →
אֲכֶלְךָ֖'a.khel.KhaI should make an end of youH3615 →
בַּדָּֽרֶךְ׃ba.Da.rekhon the journeyH1870 →

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Isaiah 48:4For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.Exodus 33:15“If Your Presence does not go with us,” Moses replied, “do not lead us up from here.Exodus 32:9–10The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.Acts 7:51You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.Deuteronomy 9:6–13Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.Exodus 3:8I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.Exodus 32:9The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.Exodus 33:15–17“If Your Presence does not go with us,” Moses replied, “do not lead us up from here.Jeremiah 11:5This was in order to establish the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is to this day.” “Amen, LORD,” I answered.Amos 3:13–14Hear and testify against the house of Jacob, declares the Lord GOD, the God of Hosts.Numbers 16:45“Get away from this congregation so that I may consume them in an instant.” And Moses and Aaron fell facedown.Numbers 16:21“Separate yourselves from this congregation so that I may consume them in an instant.”Joshua 5:6For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.Ezekiel 33:13–16If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but he then trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, then none of his righteous works will be remembered; he will die because of the iniquity he has committed.Exodus 32:1Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!”Numbers 14:8If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.Exodus 13:5And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this service in this month.Jonah 3:10When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.

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About Exodus

The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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