Exodus 32: 12

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THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES CALLED
EXODUS

CHAPTER 32

12 Wherefore should the ^aEgyptians 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, ^band ^crepent of this evil against thy people.

Footnotes

12a	Num. 14: 13 (13-16). 13 ¶ And Moses said unto the Lord, Then the ^aEgyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;) Deut. 9: 28. 28 Lest the ^aland whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
b	JST Ex. 32: 12 . . . Turn from thy fierce wrath. Thy people will repent of this evil; therefore come thou not out against them.
c	Gen. 6: 6. 6 And it ^arepented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it ^bgrieved him at his heart. Ex. 32: 14. 14 ^aAnd the Lord ^brepented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. Deut. 9: 19. 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the Lord was wroth against you to ^adestroy you. But the Lord ^bhearkened unto me at that time also.