Exodus 32:12 “Why should the Egyptians declare, ‘He brought them out with evil inten…”

Exodus 32:12

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Wherefore should the Egyptians 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, and repent of this evil against thy people.

World English Bible

Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth’? Turn from your fierce wrath, and turn away from this evil against your people.

American Standard Version

Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, saying, For evil did he bring them forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

Geneva Bible 1599

Wherefore shall the Egyptians speake, and say, He hath brought them out maliciously for to slay them in the mountaines, and to consume them from the earth? turne from thy fearce wrath, and change thy minde from this euill towarde thy people.

Darby Translation

Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, For misfortune he has brought them out, to slay them on the mountains, and to annihilate them from the face of the earth? Turn from the heat of thine anger, and repent of this evil against thy people!

Young's Literal Translation

why do the Egyptians speak, saying, For evil He brought them out to slay them among mountains, and to consume them from off the face of the ground? turn back from the heat of Thine anger, and repent of the evil against Thy people.

Bible in Basic English

Why let the Egyptians say, He took them out to an evil fate, to put them to death on the mountains, cutting them off from the earth? Let your wrath be turned away from them, and send not this evil on your people.

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Cross references

“should”

Numbers 14:13–16 Deuteronomy 9:28 Joshua 7:9 Psalm 74:18 Ezekiel 20:9 Ezekiel 20:14

Numbers 14:13–16 · BSB

But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them.

Deuteronomy 9:28 · BSB

Otherwise, those in the land from which You brought us out will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the…

Joshua 7:9 · BSB

When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?”

Psalm 74:18 · BSB

Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

Ezekiel 20:9 · BSB

But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:14 · BSB

But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

“Turn from”

Deuteronomy 13:17 Joshua 7:26 Ezra 10:14 Psalm 78:38 Psalm 85:3

Deuteronomy 13:17 · BSB

Nothing devoted to destruction shall cling to your hands, so that the LORD will turn from His fierce anger, grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as He swore to your fathers,

Joshua 7:26 · BSB

And they heaped over Achan a large pile of rocks that remains to this day. So the LORD turned from His burning anger. Therefore that place is called the Valley of Achor to this day.

Ezra 10:14 · BSB

Let our leaders represent the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at an appointed time, together with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God…

Psalm 78:38 · BSB

And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.

Psalm 85:3 · BSB

You withheld all Your fury; You turned from Your burning anger.

“repent”

Exodus 32:14 Genesis 6:6 Deuteronomy 32:36 Psalm 90:13 Psalm 106:45 Amos 7:3

Exodus 32:14 · BSB

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

Genesis 6:6 · BSB

And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

Deuteronomy 32:36 · BSB

For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.

Psalm 90:13 · BSB

Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.

Psalm 106:45 · BSB

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

Amos 7:3 · BSB

So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God, saying, “O LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?

13Remember 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.’”

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