Exodus 32:9 References

9 aThe Lord said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and behold, they are ban obstinate people.

a Numbers 14:11-20


Numbers 14

11 aThe Lord said to Moses, "How long will this people spurn Me? And how long will bthey not believe in Me, despite all the signs which I have performed in their midst?
12 "I will smite them with apestilence and dispossess them, and I bwill make you into a nation greater and mightier than they."
13 aBut Moses said to the Lord, "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought up this people from their midst,
14 and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, O Lord, are in the midst of this people, for aYou, O Lord, are seen eye to eye, while Your cloud stands over them; and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
15 "Now if You slay this people as one man, athen the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
16 'Because the Lord acould not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, therefore He slaughtered them in the wilderness.'
17 "But now, I pray, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared,
18 'aThe Lord is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but bHe will by no means clear the guilty, cvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.'
19 "aPardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness, just as You also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now."
20 So the Lord said, "aI have pardoned them according to your word;