Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.
Parallel translations
- KJV Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
- BSB I am just like you before God; I was also formed from 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 foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
- Job 10:9Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
- Job 31:35oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!
- Job 23:3–4Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
- Job 13:12Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
- Gen 3:19By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
- Job 9:32–35For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
- 2 Cor 5:1For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
- 2 Cor 5:20We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
- Gen 30:2Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
- Exod 4:16He will be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.
- Gen 2:7Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- Job 20:22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.
- Job 13:3“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
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