Moses: Character of Unaspiring

I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.” …

The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people. …

The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”