Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
Parallel translations
- WEB Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also 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 less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
- Job 10:9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
- Job 31:35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
- Job 23:3–4Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
- Job 13:12Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
- Gen 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
- Job 9:32–35For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
- 2 Cor 5:1For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
- 2 Cor 5:20Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.
- Gen 30:2And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
- Exod 4:16And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.
- Gen 2:7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- Job 20:22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
- Job 13:3Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
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