EXODUS 32:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.”
Why should the Egyptians say, he brought them out to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them from the face of the earth? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people. Moses' second argument is the nations' perspective: the God who produced ten plagues for Israel's liberation cannot then destroy them in the wilderness. The argument is not self-serving but missional — the proclamation of God's name in all the earth (Exodus 9:16) requires Israel's survival to testify. Numbers 14:15–16 records Moses making the same argument later. The God whose name is proclaimed through Israel's deliverance is honored by Israel's continuation.
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