“And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.”
So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments at Mount Horeb. The compliance is complete and permanent — not a temporary gesture but a stripping that remains. The ornaments that marked festivity are removed in ongoing mourning. 1 Peter 3:3–4 says beauty should not come from outward adornment but from the hidden person of the heart — the stripping at Horeb is the covenant community's first lesson in the difference between outward decoration and inward formation. What is taken off the body is the beginning of what is formed in the heart. The external gesture of mourning initiates the internal formation that the covenant requires.
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