³ Before the face thereof a devouring fire, and behind it a burning flame: the land is like a garden of pleasure Before it, and behind it a desolate wilderness, neither is there any one that can escape it.

⁵ And the Lord said to Moses: Say to the children of Israel: Thou are a stiffnecked people; once I shall come up in the midst of thee, and shall destroy thee. Now presently lay aside thy ornaments, that I may know what to do with thee.