Exodus 32:10 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 32:10

Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”

BSB

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ASV

now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.

KJV

Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 26 (420)

Moses resisted God and prevented him from destroying his people when God said to him: "Let me alone, that I may strike this people." Just see the power of Moses! What does God say to him? Let me alone; you are compelling me, your prayers, as it were, restrain me; your prayers hold back my hand. I shoot an arrow; I hurl a javelin; and your prayers are the shield of the people. Let me alone that I might strike down this people. Along with this, consider the compassionate kindness of God.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Now therefore let me alone - Moses had already begun to plead with God in the behalf of this rebellious and ungrateful people; and so powerful was his intercession that even the Omnipotent represents himself as incapable of doing any thing in the way of judgment, unless his creature desisted from praying for mercy! See an instance of the prevalence of fervent intercession in the case of Abraham, Gen 18:23-33, from the model of which the intercession of Moses seems to have been formed.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְעַתָּה֙	ve.'a.Tah	and therefore	H6258 →
הַנִּ֣יחָה	ha.Ni.chah	leave alone !	H5117 →
לִּ֔י	Li	<to> <the> me
וְיִֽחַר־	ve.yi.char-	so may it burn	H2734 →
אַפִּ֥י	'a.Pi	anger my	H639 →
בָהֶ֖ם	va.Hem	on <the> them
וַאֲכַלֵּ֑ם	va.'a.kha.Lem	so I may make an end of them	H3615 →
וְאֶֽעֱשֶׂ֥ה	ve.'e.'e.Seh	and I may make	H6213 →
אוֹתְךָ֖	'ot.Kha	<obj.> you	H853 →
לְג֥וֹי	le.Goy	into a nation	H1471 →
גָּדֽוֹל׃	ga.Dol	great	H1419 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Deuteronomy 9:14
Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”
leads to
- Deuteronomy 29:20
  The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot…
- Exodus 32:10–13
  Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
Through
Deuteronomy 9:19
For I was afraid of the anger and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well.
leads to
- Exodus 32:14
  So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.
- Deuteronomy 10:10
  I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.
- James 5:16–17
  Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.
- Exodus 33:17
  So the LORD said to Moses, “I will do this very thing you have asked, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.”
- Psalms 99:6
  Moses and Aaron were among His priests; Samuel was among those who called on His name. They called to the LORD and He answered.
Through
Exodus 22:24
My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.
leads to
- Psalms 109:9
  May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.