Exo 32:11-13, 30-32, 34:9, Num 14:11-20, Jos 7:7-9, Psa 106:23 | ESV | STEP | But Moses implored the Lord his God and said , O Lord , why does your wrath burn hot against your people , whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand ?

11 But ^aMoses implored the Lord his God and said, “O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12 ^bWhy should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger and ^crelent from this disaster against your people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you ^dswore by your own self, and said to them, ^e‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’”

Exodus 32:30-32

30 The next day Moses said to the people, ^f“You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to the Lord; ^gperhaps I can make atonement for your sin.” 31 So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Alas, ^hthis people has sinned a great sin. They have ⁱmade for themselves gods of gold. 32 But now, if ^jyou will forgive their sin—but if not, please ^kblot me out of ^lyour book that you have written.”

Exodus 34:9

9 And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please ^mlet the Lord go in the midst of us, for ⁿit is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for ^oyour inheritance.”

Numbers 14:11-20

11 And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people ^pdespise me? And how long will they not ^qbelieve in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them? 12 I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I ^rwill make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”

Moses Intercedes for the People

13 But ^sMoses said to the Lord, “Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for you brought up this people in your might from among them, 14 and they will tell the inhabitants of this land. ^tThey have heard that you, O Lord, are in the midst of this people. For you, O Lord, are seen face to face, and ^uyour cloud stands over them and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night. 15 Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say, 16 ‘It is because the Lord ^vwas not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to give to them that he has killed them in the wilderness.’ 17 And now, please let the power of the Lord be great as you have promised, saying, 18 ^w‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, ^xvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’ 19 Please ^ypardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just ^zas you have forgiven this people, from Egypt until now.”

God Promises Judgment

20 Then the Lord said, “I have pardoned, ^aaaccording to your word.

Joshua 7:7-9

7 And Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord God, ^abwhy have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan! 8 O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies! 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and ^accut off our name from the earth. And what will you do for your great name?”

Psalms 106:23

23 Therefore ^adhe said he would destroy them—
had not Moses, his ^aechosen one,
^afstood in the breach before him,
to turn away his wrath from destroying them.