Exodus 32:7–14

⁷Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go! Go down at once, for your people, whom ^ayou brought up from the land of Egypt, have ^bcorrupted themselves.

⁸“They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. ^aThey have made for themselves a molten calf and have worshiped it and ^bhave sacrificed to it and said, ‘^1cThese are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!’”

^9aAnd Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, they are ^ba stiff-necked people.

¹⁰“Now then ^alet Me alone, that My anger may burn against them and that I may consume them; and ^bI will make you a great nation.”

¹¹Then ^aMoses entreated ¹the favor of Yahweh his God and said, “O Yahweh, why does Your anger burn against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand?

¹²“Why should ^athe Egyptians speak, saying, ‘With evil intent He brought them out to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your burning anger and relent concerning doing harm to Your people.

¹³“Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You ^aswore by Yourself, and You said to them, ‘I will ^bmultiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and ^call this land of which I have spoken I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.’”

^14aSo Yahweh relented concerning the harm which He said He would do to His people.