Exodus 33:5-7

Easy-to-Read Version

⁵ This was because the Lord said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stubborn people. I might destroy you even if I travel with you only a short time. So take off all your jewelry while I decide^[a] what to do with you.’” ⁶ So the Israelites stopped wearing their jewelry at Mount Horeb.

The Temporary Meeting Tent

⁷ Moses used to take a tent a short way outside the camp. He called it “the meeting tent.^[b]” Anyone who wanted to ask something from the Lord would go to the meeting tent outside the camp.