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Exodus 32:14

Mercy and compassionPrayerRepentanceGod's faithfulness

12 Why should the Egyptians declare, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.

13 Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”

So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.

15 Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.

16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

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BSB
So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.
KJV
And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
WEB
So the LORD turned away from the evil which he said he would do to his people.
ASV
And Jehovah repented of the evil which he said he would do unto his people.
DARBY
And Jehovah repented of the evil that he had said he would do to his people.
BLB
And YHWH relented from the evil that He spoke to do to His people.
ÅB
Så angret Herren det onde han hadde talt om å gjøre mot sitt folk.
OTB
Så angret Herren det onde han hadde truet med å gjøre mot sitt folk.
B1930
Så angret Herren det onde han hadde talt om å gjøre mot sitt folk.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Jonah 3:10

    When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.

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  • Jeremiah 26:13

    So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might relent of the disaster He has pronounced against you.

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  • Psalms 106:45

    And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

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  • 1 Chronicles 21:15

    Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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  • Jeremiah 18:8

    But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.

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  • 2 Samuel 24:16

    But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

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  • Jonah 4:2

    So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.

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  • Joel 2:13

    So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.

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