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12 Why should the Egyptians say[a], ‘With evil intent he brought them out to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’?[b] Turn from your fierce anger[c] and relent concerning the disaster for your people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by yourself, and you told them, ‘I will multiply your offspring like the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I promised I will give to your offspring, and they will inherit it forever.’”

14 And Yahweh relented concerning the disaster that he had threatened[d] to do to his people.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 32:12 Literally “say, saying”
  2. Exodus 32:12 Or “ground”
  3. Exodus 32:12 Literally “the heat of your nose”
  4. Exodus 32:14 Literally “spoken”

12 Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth’?(A) Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster(B) on your people. 13 Remember(C) your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self:(D) ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars(E) in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land(F) I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.’” 14 Then the Lord relented(G) and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.

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