Exodus 32:7-14

7Then the Lord spoke to Moses, “Go 1down at once, for your people, whom 2you brought up from the land of Egypt, have 3behaved corruptly. 8They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. 4They have made for themselves a cast metal calf, and have worshiped it and 5have sacrificed to it and said, ‘67This is your god, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!’” 98Then the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, they are 910an obstinate people. 10So now 11leave Me alone, that My anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them; and 12I will make of you a great nation.”

11Then 13Moses pleaded with the Lord his God, and said, “Lord, why does Your anger burn against Your people whom You have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12Why should 14the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘With evil motives He brought them out, to kill them on the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your burning anger and relent of doing harm to Your people. 13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You 15swore by Yourself, and said to them, ‘I will 16multiply your 17descendants as the stars of the heavens, and 18all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your 19descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’” 1420So the Lord relented of the harm which He said He would do to His people.