Exodus 32:14
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New International Version (©2011)
Then the LORD relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So the LORD changed his mind about the terrible disaster he had threatened to bring on his people.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And the LORD relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So the LORD changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So the LORD relented concerning the disaster He said He would bring on His people.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So the LORD changed his mind about the calamity he had said he would bring on his people.

NET Bible (©2006)
Then the LORD relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So the LORD reconsidered his threat to destroy his people.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the LORD turned from the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

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

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

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

Darby Bible Translation
And Jehovah repented of the evil that he had said he would do to his people.

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

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

World English Bible
Yahweh repented of 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.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

32:7-14 God says to Moses, that the Israelites had corrupted themselves. Sin is the corruption of the sinner, and it is a self-corruption; every man is tempted when he is drawn aside of his own lust. They had turned aside out of the way. Sin is a departing from the way of duty into a by-path. They soon forgot God's works. He sees what they cannot discover, nor is any wickedness of the world hid from him. We could not bear to see the thousandth part of that evil which God sees every day. God expresses the greatness of his just displeasure, after the manner of men who would have prayer of Moses could save them from ruin; thus he was a type of Christ, by whose mediation alone, God would reconcile the world to himself. Moses pleads God's glory. The glorifying God's name, as it ought to be our first petition, and it is so in the Lord's prayer, so it ought to be our great plea. And God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer; for what he has promised he is able to perform. See the power of prayer. In answer to the prayers of Moses, God showed his purpose of sparing the people, as he had before seemed determined on their destruction; which change of the outward discovery of his purpose, is called repenting of the evil.

Pulpit Commentary

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.)

CHAPTER 32:15-19

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. He did not do what he threatened to do, and seemed to have in his thoughts and designs, but did what Moses desired he would, Exodus 32:12 not that any of God's thoughts or the determinations of his mind are alterable; for the thoughts of his heart are to all generations; but he changes the outward dispensations of his providence, or his methods of acting with men, which he has been taking or threatened to take; and this being similar to what they do when they repent of anything, who alter their course, hence repentance is ascribed to God, though, properly speaking, it does not belong to him, see Jeremiah 18:8. Aben Ezra thinks that the above prayer of Moses, which was so prevalent with God, does not stand in its proper place, but should come after Exodus 32:31 for, to what purpose, says he, should Moses say to the Israelites, Exodus 32:30 "peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin": if he was appeased by his prayer before?

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Moses Informed of Israel's Sin
…12Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people. 13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever. 14And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do to his people.

Exodus 33:13 If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people."
1 Samuel 15:11 "I regret that I have made Saul king, because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions." Samuel was angry, and he cried out to the LORD all that night.
2 Samuel 24:16 When the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was afflicting the people, "Enough! Withdraw your hand." The angel of the LORD was then at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:15 And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was destroying the people, "Enough! Withdraw your hand." The angel of the LORD was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
Psalm 106:45 for their sake he remembered his covenant and out of his great love he relented.
Jeremiah 26:19 "Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did not Hezekiah fear the LORD and seek his favor? And did not the LORD relent, so that he did not bring the disaster he pronounced against them? We are about to bring a terrible disaster on ourselves!"
Jonah 3:10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.