The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, 'You have dwelt long enough at this mountain' -- the wilderness sojourn, though prolonged by rebellion, was not permanent exile but a testing season. The command to depart marks the transition from the Sinai covenant (made with the fathers) to the renewal of that covenant with a new generation. The mountain represented both revelation and restraint; forward movement requires obedience to what was revealed there.

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