12 Miksi egyptiläiset saisivat sanoa, että sinä veit israelilaiset pois vain tappaaksesi heidät vuorilla ja hävittääksesi heidät maan päältä? Anna vihasi lauhtua ja luovu aikeestasi tuhota kansasi.

14 Niin Herran viha lauhtui, ja hän päätti luopua siitä hävityksestä, jolla oli uhannut kansaansa.

11 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and turn away from this evil against your people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’"

14 So Yahweh turned away from the evil which he said he would do to his people.