Exodus 3:17

3:17 and I have promised ¹  that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, ²  to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

Exodus 33:3

33:3 Go up ³  to a land flowing with milk and honey. But ⁴  I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you ⁵  on the way.”

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¹ tn Heb “And I said.”

² tn See the note on this list in 3:8.

³ tn This verse seems to be a continuation of the command to “go up” since it begins with “to a land….” The intervening clauses are therefore parenthetical or relative. But the translation is made simpler by supplying the verb.

⁴ tn This is a strong adversative here, “but.”

⁵ tn The clause is “lest I consume you.” It would go with the decision not to accompany them: “I will not go up with you…lest I consume (destroy) you in the way.” The verse is saying that because of the people’s bent to rebellion, Yahweh would not remain in their midst as he had formerly said he would do. Their lives would be at risk if he did.