40. They rose early in the morning and went to the top of the mount, saying, “Here we are. We will go up to the place that Yahweh said, because we have sinned.”
41. But Moses said, “Why are you going against the command of Yahweh? It will not succeed.
42. You should not go up because Yahweh is not in your midst; do not let yourselves be defeated in the presence of your enemies,
43. because the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword; because you have turned back from Yahweh, and Yahweh will not be with you.”