And the LORD said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and indeed it [is] a stiff-necked people!

"for I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. [If] today, while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the LORD, then how much more after my death?

"Now do not be stiff-necked, as your fathers [were, but] yield yourselves to the LORD; and enter His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever, and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.

Because I knew that you [were] obstinate, And your neck [was] an iron sinew, And your brow bronze,

"For [they are] impudent and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.'

" [You] stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers [did,] so [do] you.