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When the people heard these dreadful words, they mourned, and no one put on any ornaments. Adonai said to Moses, “Say to Bnei-Yisrael, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were going up among you for one moment, I would consume you. Take off your ornaments, so that I may consider what to do to you.’” So Bnei-Yisrael stripped themselves of their ornaments from Mount Horeb onward.

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