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Exodus 33:1-6. A threatened departure. Israelite men and women lay ornaments aside in a silent camp. Focus on ordinary adults removing bracelets and setting them on cloth. No Moses, Aaron, leader or staff-bearing figure. Bronze Age Exodus setting, not first-century staging. One 16:9 single scene. No text or lettering.
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Exodus 33:1-6

A threatened departure

Story guide: The people mourn and remove their ornaments.

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1Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Go up from here, you and the people whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land that I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’”

2And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

3to a land flowing with milk and honey. For I will not go up in your midst, because you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way.

4When the people heard this bad news, they mourned, and no man put on his ornaments.

5And Yahweh said to Moses, “Say to the sons of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. In a single moment, if I were to go up in your midst, I would consume you. So now, take off your ornaments from upon you, and I will know what I should do with you.’”

6So the sons of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from Mount Horeb onward.

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