Exodus 32: 7-14

Exodus 32: 7-14 7) The Lord spoke to Moses, “Hurry down, for your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, have acted basely. 8) They have been quick to turn aside from the way that I enjoined upon them. They have made themselves a molten calf and bowed low to it and sacrificed to it, saying: ‘This is your god, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt!’” 9) The Lord further said to Moses, “I see that this is a stiffnecked people. 10) Now, let Me be, that My anger may blaze forth against them and that I may destroy them, and make of you a great nation.” 11) But Moses implored the Lord his God, saying, “Let not Your anger, O Lord, blaze forth against Your people, whom You delivered from the land of Egypt with great power and a might hand. 12) Let not the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that God delivered them, only to kill them off in the mountains and annihilate them from the face of the earth.’ Turn from Your blazing anger, and renounce the plan to punish Your people. 13) Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, how You swore to them by Your Self and said to them: I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, and I will give to you your offspring this whole land of which I spoke, to possess forever.” 14) And the Lord renounced the punishment the Lord had planned to bring upon the Lord’s people. [JPS translation. Edited for gender neutrality. Questions written by Rabbi Adam Chalom ]