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Exodus 32:34

The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 32:34

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Lead the people unto the place, etc. This was a revocation of the sentence of death passed in . The people was to be spared, and Moses was to conduct them to Palestine. Mine Angel shall go before thee.

Mine Angel—not I myself (compare , ). Another threatened punishment, which was revoked upon the repentance of the people (, ), and the earnest prayer of Moses ().

I will visit their sin upon them. Kalisch thinks that a plague was at once sent, and so understands . But most commentators regard the day of visitation as that on which it was declared that none of those who had quitted Egypt should enter Canaan (), and regard that sentence as, in fact, provoked by the golden calf idolatry ().

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