Exodus 32:30–33:6

³⁰And it cometh to pass, on the morrow, that Moses saith unto the people, ‘Ye—ye have sinned a great sin, and now I go up unto Jehovah, if so be I atone for your sin.’ ³¹And Moses turneth back unto Jehovah, and saith, ‘Oh this people hath sinned a great sin, that they make to themselves a god of gold; ³²and now, if Thou takest away their sin—and if not—blot me, I pray thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written.’ ³³And Jehovah saith unto Moses, ‘Whoso hath sinned against Me—I blot him out of My book; ³⁴and now, go, lead the people whithersoever I have spoken to thee of; lo, My messenger goeth before thee, and in the day of my charging—then I have charged upon them their sin.’ ³⁵And Jehovah plagueth the people, because they made the calf which Aaron made.

Chapter 33

¹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, ‘Go, ascend from this place, thou and the people, whom thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I have sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, To thy seed I give it,’ ²(and I have sent before thee a messenger, and have cast out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite,) ³unto a land flowing with milk and honey, for I do not go up in thy midst, for thou art a stiff-necked people—lest I consume thee in the way.’ ⁴And the people hear this sad thing, and mourn; and none put his ornaments on him. ⁵And Jehovah saith unto Moses, ‘Say unto the sons of Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked people; one moment—I come up into thy midst, and have consumed thee; and now, put down thine ornaments from off thee, and I know what I do to thee;’ ⁶and the sons of Israel take off their ornaments at mount Horeb.