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.

11 摩西就恳求耶和华他的 神施恩， 说： "耶和华啊， 你为什么向你的人民发烈怒呢？这人民是你用大能和全能的手从埃及地领出来的。

12 为什么让埃及人议论， 说： ‘把他们领出来是出于恶意的， 要在山上杀死他们， 在地上消灭他们’呢？求你回心转意， 不发烈怒； 求你改变初衷， 不降祸给你的人民。

13 求你记念你的仆人亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各； 你曾经指着自己向他们起誓， 说： ‘我必使你的后裔增多， 好像天上的星一样； 我必把我应许的这全地赐给你的后裔， 他们必永远承受这地作产业。’"

14 于是， 耶和华改变初衷， 不把他所说的祸降在他的人民身上。