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Exodus 32:12

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

If you do, the Egyptians will say that you brought your people out here into the mountains just to get rid of them. Please don't be angry with your people. Don't destroy them!

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He was very sorry that he had made them,

Remember, they are the people you chose and rescued from Egypt that was like a blazing fire to them.

Why can't our officials stay on in Jerusalem and take care of this for us? Let everyone who has sinned in this way meet here at a certain time with leaders and judges from their own towns. If we take care of this problem, God will surely stop being so terribly angry with us.

You kept your agreement and were so merciful

Remember your enemies, LORD! They foolishly sneer and won't respect you.

Yet God was kind. He kept forgiving their sins and didn't destroy them. He often became angry, but never lost his temper.

Your fierce anger is no longer aimed at us.

Help us, LORD! Don't wait! Pity your servants.

So even though the LORD had threatened to destroy the people, he changed his mind and let them live.

If this is true, let me know what your plans are, then I can obey and continue to please you. And don't forget that you have chosen this nation to be your own.”

No one worships in your name or remains faithful. You have turned your back on us and let our sins melt us away.

You, LORD, are our Father. We are nothing but clay, but you are the potter who moulded us.

But that would have disgraced me, because many other nations had seen me bring the Israelites out of Egypt.

But I did not. That would have disgraced me in front of the nations that had seen me bring the Israelites out of Egypt.

But that would have made me look like a liar, because I had already promised in front of everyone that I would lead them out of Egypt.

Tell my servants, the priests, to cry inside the temple and to offer this prayer near the altar: “Save your people, LORD God! Don't let foreign nations make jokes about us. Don't let them laugh and ask, ‘Where is your God?’ ”

Then the LORD felt sorry and answered, “I won't let it be destroyed.”

Again the LORD felt sorry and answered, “I won't let it be destroyed.”

When your ancestors made me angry, I decided to punish you with disasters, and I didn't hold back.

You are merciful, and you treat people better than they deserve. So please forgive these people, just as you have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.

“Get away from the rest of the Israelites so I can kill them at once!”

When only a few of the LORD's people remain, when their strength is gone, and some of them are slaves, the LORD will feel sorry for them and give them justice.

If you destroy your people, the Egyptians will say, “The LORD promised to give Israel land, but he wasn't powerful enough to keep his promise. In fact, he hated them so much that he took them into the desert and killed them.”

They covered the remains with a big pile of rocks, which is still there. Then the LORD stopped being angry with Israel. That's how the place came to be called Trouble Valley.

Everyone will think you weren't strong enough to protect your people. Now the Canaanites and everyone else who lives in the land will surround us and wipe us out.

But the LORD has chosen you to be his own people. He will always take care of you so that everyone will know how great he is.




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