“Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.”
Let me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they' — the LORD offers Moses an astonishing alternative: the covenant could be transferred to Moses' descendants, Israel could be obliterated, and a new people established. This offer tests whether Moses will side with the covenant or with the threatened people.
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