31. So Moses returned to the Lord, and said, Oh, these people have sinned a great sin and have made themselves gods of gold!
32. Yet now, if You will forgive their sin–and if not, blot me, I pray You, out of Your book which You have written!
33. But the Lord said to Moses, Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him [not you] out of My book. [Dan. 12:1; Phil. 4:3; Rev. 3:5.]
34. But now go, lead the people to the place of which I have told you. Behold, My Angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I punish I will visit their sin upon them! [Exod. 23:20; 33:2, 3.]
35. And the Lord sent a plague upon the people because they made the calf which Aaron fashioned for them.