32:9,10
The term “stiff-necked people” is repeated several times in the Old Testament, and is an accurate description of the Israelites (along with all mankind!). God now calls on Moses to leave Him alone, and God would pour out His wrath on the people. The people would perish, and God would make a great nation out of Moses. As we know, and will soon read, God did not do this. This is what He would have done if nothing else was to happen, but something else was to happen.
32:11,12
That something else that was to happen was Moses pleading with God. God ties His plans in with the actions of men in a most intricate way. Even the whole plan of salvation was tied in with a man, the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Moses reminds God (not that God needed reminding) that He had brought them up out of Egypt with great power. If God did destroy them, then the Egyptians would say that God has “rescued them only so that He could destroy them. Moses calls on God to relent from His anger.
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