same dynamics appeared (Exodus 32–34): Yahweh is, after all, the God who claims to be long-tempered and full of commitment, and one who carries people’s waywardness and rebellion, even though also one who does not acquit the guilty. God is always having to handle the question of how to deal with both parts of that self-description. Here, God does so in a different way from the one adopted at Sinai, by reaffirming the need to take action against the entire current generation of Israel but also by