Exodus 33:6

6 So from Mount Horev onward, the people of Isra'el stripped themselves of their ornaments.

Exodus 33:6 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 33:6

And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their
ornaments
Such as before described, and this they did,

by the Mount Horeb;
before their departure from thence, and where they had been guilty of the idolatry: the words may be literally rendered, "from Mount Horeb" ^F21; and Jonathan understands the preceding clause of something they put off which they received from thence; but the meaning is, that they went to some distance from Mount Horeb, and there stripped themselves to show their greater humiliation, and the sense they had of their unworthiness of being near to the Lord, or enjoying his presence.

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 (rhm) "a monte", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius; "procul a monte", Junius & Tremellius, Piscato.

Exodus 33:6 In-Context

4 When the people heard this bad news, they went into mourning; and no one wore his ornaments.

5 ADONAI said to Moshe, "Tell the people of Isra'el, 'You are a stiffnecked people! If I were to go up with you for even one moment, I would exterminate you! Now, keep your ornaments off; then I will decide what to do to you.'"

6 So from Mount Horev onward, the people of Isra'el stripped themselves of their ornaments.

7 Moshe would take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp. He called it the tent of meeting. Everyone who wanted to consult ADONAI would go out to the tent of meeting, outside the camp.

8 Whenever Moshe went out to the tent, all the people would get up and stand, each man at his tent door, and look at Moshe until he had gone into the tent.