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NASB | Exodus 32:14 So the LORD changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Exodus 32:14 So the LORD changed His mind about the harm which He had said He would do to His people. |
Subject: EX 32:14 THE LORD REPENTING? |
Bible Note: Dear Danny, Note this verse in the NASB: "So the LORD changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people." And in the NKJV: "So the LORD relented from the harm which He said He would do to His people." God often speaks to us of Himself in human terms. If He did not do so, how would we be able to understand Him? John Gill commented as follows on this verse: "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, Exo 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 Jer 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 Exo 32:31 for, to what purpose, says he, should Moses say to the Israelites, Exo 32:30 'peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin': if He was appeased by his prayer before?" In Him, Doc |
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