Exodus 32:10
Good News Translation
Now, don't try to stop me. I am angry with them, and I am going to destroy them. Then I will make you and your descendants into a great nation."

New Revised Standard Version
Now let me alone, so that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; and of you I will make a great nation.”

Contemporary English Version
and I'm angry enough to destroy them, so don't try to stop me. But I will make your descendants into a great nation.

New American Bible
Let me alone, then, that my anger may burn against them to consume them. Then I will make of you a great nation.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and that I may destroy them, and I will make of thee a great nation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and that I may destroy them, and I will make of thee a great nation.

let me alone

Genesis 18:32,33 I beseech thee, saith he, be not angry, Lord, if I speak yet once more: What if ten shall be found there? And he said: I will not destroy it for the sake of ten. . . .

Genesis 32:26-28 And he said to him: Let me go, for it is break of day. He answered: I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. . . .

Numbers 14:19,20 Forgive, I beseech thee, the sins of this people, according to the greatness of thy mercy, as thou hast been merciful to them from their going out of Egypt unto this place. . . .

Numbers 16:22,45-48 They fell flat on their face, and said: O most mighty, the God of the spirits of all flesh, for one man's sin shall thy wrath rage against all? . . .

Deuteronomy 9:14,19 Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from under heaven, and set thee over a nation, that is greater and stronger than this. . . .

Jeremiah 14:11 And the Lord said to me: Pray not for this people for their good.

Jeremiah 15:1 And the Lord said to me: If Moses and Samuel shall stand before me, my soul is not towards this people: cast them out from my sight, and let them go forth.

James 5:16 Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much.

my wrath

Exodus 32:11,19 But Moses besought the Lord his God, saying: Why, O Lord, is thy indignation enkindled against thy people, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with great power, and with a mighty hand? . . .

Exodus 22:24 And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will strike you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

and I will

Numbers 14:12 I will strike them therefore with pestilence, and will consume them: but thee I will make a ruler over a great nation, and a mightier than this is.

Deuteronomy 9:14,19 Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from under heaven, and set thee over a nation, that is greater and stronger than this. . . .

Context
Moses Informed of Israel's Sin
9And again the Lord said to Moses: I see that this people is stiffnecked: 10Let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and that I may destroy them, and I will make of thee a great nation.11But Moses besought the Lord his God, saying: Why, O Lord, is thy indignation enkindled against thy people, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with great power, and with a mighty hand?…
Cross References
Exodus 33:3
That thou mayst enter into the land that floweth with milk and honey. For I will not go up with thee, because thou art a stiffnecked people; lest I destroy thee in the way.

Numbers 14:12
I will strike them therefore with pestilence, and will consume them: but thee I will make a ruler over a great nation, and a mightier than this is.

Numbers 16:21
Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may presently destroy them.

Deuteronomy 9:14
Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from under heaven, and set thee over a nation, that is greater and stronger than this.

Deuteronomy 9:19
For I feared his indignation and anger, wherewith being moved against you, he would have destroyed you. And the Lord heard me this time also.

Psalm 106:23
And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Jeremiah 7:16
Therefore do not thou pray for this people, nor take to thee praise and supplication for them: and do not withstand me: for I will not hear thee.

Jeremiah 11:14
Therefore do not thou pray for this people, and do not take up praise and prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time of their cry to me, in the time of their affliction.

Jeremiah 14:11
And the Lord said to me: Pray not for this people for their good.

Ezekiel 20:13
But the house of Israel provoked me in the desert: they walked not in my statutes, and they cast away my judgments, which if a man do he shall live in them: and they grievously violated my sabbaths. I said therefore that I would pour out my indignation upon them in the desert, and would consume them.

Exodus 32:9
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