Exodus 32:32
30 The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”
31 So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made gods of gold for themselves.
Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”
33 The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book.
34 Now go, lead the people to the place I described. Behold, My angel shall go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will punish them for their sin.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”
- KJV
- Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
- WEB
- Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”
- ASV
- Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin-; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
- DARBY
- And now, if thou wilt forgive their sin but if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book that thou hast written.
- BLB
- And now, if You will forgive their sin—. and if not, blot me out, please, from Your book that You have written.”
- ÅB
- Å, om du ville tilgi dem deres synd! Men hvis ikke, da slett meg ut av din bok som du har skrevet!
- OTB
- Men nå, hvis du vil tilgi deres synd, vær så snill å gjøre det; men hvis ikke, vær så snill å stryke meg ut av boken du har skrevet.»
- B1930
- Å, om du vilde forlate dem deres synd! Men hvis ikke, da slett mig ut av din bok som du har skrevet!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 69:28
May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.
Read in contextRomans 9:3
For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,
Read in contextRevelation 21:27
But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Read in contextPhilippians 4:3
Yes, and I ask you, my true yokefellow, to help these women who have labored with me for the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.
Read in contextDaniel 12:1
“At that time Michael, the great prince who stands watch over your people, will rise up. There will be a time of distress, the likes of which will not have occurred from the beginning of nations until that time. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered.
Read in contextRevelation 3:5
Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels.
Read in contextPsalms 56:8
You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle— are they not in Your book?
Read in contextPsalms 139:16
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
Read in context