¹⁰ Now therefore, ^(A)let Me alone, that ^(B)My wrath may burn hot against them and I may ^[a]consume them. And ^(C)I will make of you a great nation.”

^11 (D)Then Moses pleaded with ^[b]the Lord his God, and said: “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 (E)Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, ‘He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and ^(F)relent from this harm to Your people.

⁵ And you shall attend to ^(A)the duties of the sanctuary and the duties of the altar, ^(B)that there may be no more wrath on the children of Israel.

⁷ “Remember! Do not forget how you ^(A)provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. ^(B)From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. ⁸ Also ^(C)in Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry enough with you to have destroyed you.