40. And they rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “See, we have indeed sinned, but we shall go up to the place which יהוה had spoken of!”
41. But Mosheh said, “Why do you now transgress the command of יהוה, since it does not prosper?
42. “Do not go up, lest you be smitten by your enemies, for יהוה is not in your midst.
43. “Because the Amalĕqites and the Kena‛anites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from יהוה, יהוה is not with you.”
44. But they presumed to go up to the mountaintop, but neither the ark of the covenant of יהוה nor Mosheh left the camp.
45. So the Amalĕqites and the Kena‛anites who dwelt in that mountain came down and smote them, and beat them down, even to Ḥormah.