Exodus 32:9-14

9And Jehovah said to Moses, I see this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

10And now let me alone, that my anger may burn against them, and I may consume them; and I will make of thee a great nation.

11And Moses besought Jehovah his 1God, and said, Why, Jehovah, doth thy wrath burn against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand?

12Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, For misfortune he has brought them out, to slay them on the mountains, and to annihilate them from the face of the earth? Turn from the heat of thine anger, and repent of this evil against thy people!

13Remember Abraham, Isaac and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thyself, and saidst to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed, and they shall possess [it] for ever!

14And Jehovah repented of the evil that he had said he would do to his people.