Exo 32:9-10, 14, 33:13-14, 34:6-7, 9-10, Num 14:11-20, Job 33:23 | ESV | STEP | And the Lord said to Moses , I have seen this people , and behold , it is a stiff-necked people .

Exodus 32:9-10

9 And the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, ^ait is a stiff-necked people. 10 Now therefore ^blet me alone, that ^cmy wrath may burn hot against them and ^dI may consume them, in order that ^eI may make a great nation of you.”

Exodus 32:14

14 And the Lord ^frelented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people.

Exodus 33:13-14

13 Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please ^gshow me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is ^hyour people.” 14 And he said, ⁱ“My presence will go with you, and ^jI will give you rest.”

Exodus 34:6-7

6 The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, ^k“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and ^lgracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast ^mlove and faithfulness, 7 ⁿkeeping steadfast love for thousands, ^{▼▼Or to the thousandth generation} ^pforgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but ^qwho will by no means clear the guilty, ^rvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

Exodus 34:9-10

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

The Covenant Renewed

10 And he said, “Behold, ^vI am making a covenant. Before all your people ^wI will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord, for it is an ^xawesome thing that I will do with you.

Numbers 14:11-20

11 And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people ^ydespise me? And how long will they not ^zbelieve 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 ^aawill make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”

Moses Intercedes for the People

13 But ^abMoses 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. ^acThey have heard that you, O Lord, are in the midst of this people. For you, O Lord, are seen face to face, and ^adyour 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 ^aewas 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 ^af‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, ^agvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’ 19 Please ^ahpardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just ^aias you have forgiven this people, from Egypt until now.”

God Promises Judgment

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

Job 33:23

23 If there be for him ^akan angel,
^ala mediator, ^amone of the thousand,
to declare to man what is ^anright for him,