Exodus 32:14
New International Version
Then the LORD relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.

New Living Translation
So the LORD changed his mind about the terrible disaster he had threatened to bring on his people.

English Standard Version
And the LORD relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people.

Berean Standard Bible
So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.

King James Bible
And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

New King James Version
So the LORD relented from the harm which He said He would do to His people.

New American Standard Bible
So the LORD relented of the harm which He said He would do to His people.

NASB 1995
So the LORD changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people.

NASB 1977
So the LORD changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Yahweh relented concerning the harm which He said He would do to His people.

Amplified Bible
So the LORD changed His mind about the harm which He had said He would do to His people.

Christian Standard Bible
So the LORD relented concerning the disaster he had said he would bring on his people.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So the LORD relented concerning the disaster He said He would bring on His people.

American Standard Version
And Jehovah repented of the evil which he said he would do unto his people.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Remember Abraham and Isaac and Israel your Servants, for you swore to them by yourself and you said to them, ‘I shall multiply your seed as the stars that are in Heaven and all the land which I said I shall give to your seed and they shall inherit it to eternity.’

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the Lord was prevailed upon to preserve his people.

Contemporary English Version
So even though the LORD had threatened to destroy the people, he changed his mind and let them live.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which he had spoken against his people.

English Revised Version
And the LORD repented of the evil which he said he would do unto his people.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So the LORD reconsidered his threat to destroy his people.

Good News Translation
So the LORD changed his mind and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.

International Standard Version
So the LORD changed his mind about the calamity he had said he would bring on his people.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the LORD repented of the evil which He said He would do unto His people.

Literal Standard Version
and YHWH relents from the evil which He has spoken of doing to His people.

Majority Standard Bible
So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.

New American Bible
So the LORD changed his mind about the punishment he had threatened to inflict on his people.

NET Bible
Then the LORD relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.

New Revised Standard Version
And the LORD changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people.

New Heart English Bible
The LORD changed his mind about the disaster which he said he would do to his people.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do to his people.

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

Young's Literal Translation
and Jehovah repenteth of the evil which He hath spoken of doing to His people.

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Context
Moses Informed of Israel's Sin
13Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’ ” 14So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.

Cross References
Exodus 33:13
Now if indeed I have found favor in Your sight, please let me know Your ways, that I may know You and find favor in Your sight. Remember that this nation is Your people."

1 Samuel 15:11
"I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions." And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all that night.

2 Samuel 24:16
But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, "Enough! Withdraw your hand now!" At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:15
Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, "Enough! Withdraw your hand now!" At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Psalm 106:45
And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

Jeremiah 26:19
Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did Hezekiah not fear the LORD and seek His favor, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster He had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great harm on ourselves!"

Jonah 3:10
When God saw their actions--that they had turned from their evil ways--He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.


Treasury of Scripture

And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do to his people.

Deuteronomy 32:26
I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

2 Samuel 24:16
And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:15
And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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Exodus 32
1. The people in the absence of Moses, caused Aaron to make a calf
7. God informs Moses, who intercedes for Israel, and prevails
15. Moses comes down with the tablets
19. He breaks them
20. He destroys the calf
22. Aaron's excuse for himself
25. Moses causes the idolaters to be slain
30. He prays for the people














Verse 14. - The Lord repented of the evil. Changes of purpose are, of course, attributed to God by an "economy," or accommodation of the truth to human modes of speech and conception. "God is not a man that he should repent." He "knows the end from the beginning." When he threatened to destroy Israel, he knew that he would spare; but, as he communicated to Moses, first, his anger, and then, at a later period, his intention to spare, he is said to have "repented." The expression is an anthropomorphic one, like so many others, on which we have already commented. (See the comment on Exodus 2:24, 25; 3:7, 8; 31:17; etc.)

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Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So the LORD
יְהוָ֑ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

relented
וַיִּנָּ֖חֶם (way·yin·nā·ḥem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5162: To sigh, breathe strongly, to be sorry, to pity, console, rue, to avenge

from
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the calamity
הָ֣רָעָ֔ה (hā·rā·‘āh)
Article | Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

He had threatened
דִּבֶּ֖ר (dib·ber)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

to bring
לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת (la·‘ă·śō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 6213: To do, make

on His people.
לְעַמּֽוֹ׃ (lə·‘am·mōw)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock


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