I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.
Parallel translations
- WEB Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.
- KJV Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
- NKJV Truly I am as your spokesman before God; I also have been formed out of clay.
- NASB “Behold, I belong to God, like you; I too have been formed out of the clay.
- NLT Look, you and I both belong to God. I, too, was formed from clay.
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Quick answer
The Israelites strip off their ornaments from Mount Horeb onward. Their lasting humility marks a sustained posture of repentance.
Overview
The people obey and remain stripped of their finery for the rest of their time at Horeb. This enduring gesture reflects ongoing contrition before the Lord. It models a repentance that is not momentary emotion but a settled humility before God.
Cross-references & the web
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- Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
- Job 10:9Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
- Job 31:35(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.
- Job 23:3–4If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.
- Job 13:12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
- Gen 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
- Job 9:32–35For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.
- 2 Cor 5:1Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
- 2 Cor 5:20Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God.
- Gen 30:2Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?”
- Exod 4:16He will speak to the people for you. He will be your spokesman, and it will be as if you were God to him.
- Gen 2:7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
- Job 20:22In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.
- Job 13:3Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.
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