Keluaran 32:10
Konteks32:10 So now, leave me alone 1 so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.”
Ulangan 9:14
Konteks9:14 Stand aside 2 and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory, 3 and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are.”
Yeremia 15:1
Konteks15:1 Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for 4 these people, I would not feel pity for them! 5 Get them away from me! Tell them to go away! 6
[32:10] 1 tn The imperative, from the word “to rest” (נוּחַ, nuakh), has the sense of “leave me alone, let me be.” It is a directive for Moses not to intercede for the people. B. S. Childs (Exodus [OTL], 567) reflects the Jewish interpretation that there is a profound paradox in God’s words. He vows the severest punishment but then suddenly conditions it on Moses’ agreement. “Let me alone that I may consume them” is the statement, but the effect is that he has left the door open for intercession. He allows himself to be persuaded – that is what a mediator is for. God could have slammed the door (as when Moses wanted to go into the promised land). Moreover, by alluding to the promise to Abraham God gave Moses the strongest reason to intercede.
[9:14] 2 tn Heb “leave me alone.”
[9:14] 3 tn Heb “from under heaven.”
[15:1] 4 tn The words “pleading for” have been supplied in the translation to explain the idiom (a metonymy). For parallel usage see BDB 763 s.v. עָמַד Qal.1.a and compare usage in Gen 19:27, Deut 4:10.
[15:1] sn Moses and Samuel were well-known for their successful intercession on behalf of Israel. See Ps 99:6-8 and see, e.g., Exod 32:11-14, 30-34; 1 Sam 7:5-9. The
[15:1] 5 tn Heb “my soul would not be toward them.” For the usage of “soul” presupposed here see BDB 660 s.v. נֶפֶשׁ 6 in the light of the complaints and petitions in Jeremiah’s prayer in 14:19, 21.
[15:1] 6 tn Heb “Send them away from my presence and let them go away.”
