I will send an angel ahead of you and will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites,[a] Hivites, and Jebusites.(A) 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.”(B) When the people heard this bad news, they mourned and didn’t put on their jewelry.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 33:2 Sam, LXX add Girgashites

I will send an angel(A) before you and drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.(B) Go up to the land flowing with milk and honey.(C) But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked(D) people and I might destroy(E) you on the way.”

When the people heard these distressing words, they began to mourn(F) and no one put on any ornaments.

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