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Exodus Chapter 32 verse 10 Holy Bible

ASV Exodus 32:10

now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
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BBE Exodus 32:10

Now do not get in my way, for my wrath is burning against them; I will send destruction on them, but of you I will make a great nation.
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DARBY Exodus 32:10

And now let me alone, that my anger may burn against them, and I may consume them; and I will make of thee a great nation.
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KJV Exodus 32:10

Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
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WBT Exodus 32:10

Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
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WEB Exodus 32:10

Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation."
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YLT Exodus 32:10

and now, let Me alone, and My anger doth burn against them, and I consume them, and I make thee become a great nation.'
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - Now, therefore, let me alone. This was not a command, but rather a suggestion; or, at any rate, it was a command not intended to compel obedience - like that of the angel to Jacob - "Let me go, for the day breaketh" (Genesis 32:26). Moses was not intended to take the command as absolute. He did not do so - he "wrestled with God," like Jacob, and prevailed. That my wrath may wax hot. Literally, "and my wrath will wax hot." I will make of thee a great nation. (Compare Numbers 14:12.) God could, of course, have multiplied the seed of Moses, as he had that of Abraham; but in that case all that had been as yet done would have gone for nought, and his purposes with respect to his "peculiar people" would have been put back six hundred years and more.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) Let me alone.--This was not a command to abstain from deprecation, but rather an intimation that deprecation might have power to change God's purpose. Moses was tried by an offer which would have exalted him at the expense of the people. He was allowed to see that he might either sacrifice the people and obtain his own aggrandisement, or deny himself and save them. That he chose the better part redounds to his undying glory.I will make of thee a great nation--i.e., I will put thee in the place of Abraham, make thee the father of the faithful, destroy all existing Israelites but thee and thine, and proceed de novo to raise up a "great nation" out of thy loins.