At the time when Israel in their eagerness first said, "We will do," and then, " We will hear (Exod. xxix. 7), there came sixty myriads of ministering angels to crown each Israelite with two crowns, one for " we will do and one for "we will hear.® But when after this Israel sinned, there came down a hundred and twenty myraids of destroying angels and took the crowns away from them, as it is said (Exod. xxxiii. 6), "And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by Mount Horeb.w Resh Lakish says, " The Holy One — blessed be He! — will, in the future, return them to us; for it is said (Isa. xxxv. 10), (The ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads,* i. e.t the joy they had in days of yore, upon their heads.*