Calf of Gold: Making of Excited Wrath Against Israel

Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”

Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”

For I was afraid of the anger and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well.