Deuteronomy 9:14
Good News Translation
Don't try to stop me. I intend to destroy them so that no one will remember them any longer. Then I will make you the father of a nation larger and more powerful than they are.'

New Revised Standard Version
Let me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and more numerous than they.”

Contemporary English Version
So don't try to stop me! I am going to wipe them out, and no one on earth will remember they ever lived. Then I will let your descendants become an even bigger and more powerful nation than Israel.

New American Bible
Let me be, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens. I will then make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from under heaven, and set thee over a nation, that is greater and stronger than this.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from under heaven, and set thee over a nation, that is greater and stronger than this.

Let me

Exodus 32:10-13 Let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and that I may destroy them, and I will make of thee a great nation. . . .

Isaiah 62:6,7 Upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen all the day, and all the night, they shall never hold their peace. You that are mindful of the Lord, hold not your peace, . . .

Jeremiah 14:11 And the Lord said to me: Pray not for this people for their good.

Jeremiah 15:1 And the Lord said to me: If Moses and Samuel shall stand before me, my soul is not towards this people: cast them out from my sight, and let them go forth.

Luke 11:7-10 And he from within should answer and say: Trouble me not; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot rise and give thee. . . .

Luke 18:1-8 And he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray and not to faint, . . .

Acts 7:51 You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also.

blot

Deuteronomy 29:20 And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and jealousy against that man should be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all the curses that are written in this volume should light upon him: and the Lord should blot out his name from under heaven,

Exodus 32:32,33 Or if thou do not, strike me out of the book that thou hast written. . . .

Psalm 9:5 Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and the wicked one hath perished; thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.

Psalm 109:13 May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.

Proverbs 10:7 The wise of heart receiveth precepts: a fool is beaten with lips.

Revelation 3:5 He that shall overcome shall thus be clothed in white garments: and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life. And I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

and I will

Numbers 14:11,12 And the Lord said to Moses: How long will this people detract me? how long will they not believe me for all the signs that I have wrought before them? . . .

Context
The Golden Calf
13And again the Lord said to me: I see that this people is stiffnecked: 14Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from under heaven, and set thee over a nation, that is greater and stronger than this.15And when I came down from the burning mount, and held the two tables of the covenant with both hands,…
Cross References
Exodus 32:10
Let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and that I may destroy them, and I will make of thee a great nation.

Deuteronomy 29:20
And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and jealousy against that man should be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all the curses that are written in this volume should light upon him: and the Lord should blot out his name from under heaven,

Deuteronomy 32:26
I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men.

Ezra 9:14
That we should not turn away, nor break thy commandments, nor join in marriage with the people of these abominations. Art thou angry with us unto utter destruction, not to leave us a remnant to be saved?

Psalm 9:5
Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and the wicked one hath perished; thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.

Psalm 106:23
And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Psalm 109:13
May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.

Jeremiah 7:16
Therefore do not thou pray for this people, nor take to thee praise and supplication for them: and do not withstand me: for I will not hear thee.

Deuteronomy 9:13
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