'And Jehovah spoke to Moses' means perception and instruction regarding the Israelite nation, what it was like inwardly. 'Go! go down' means looking at their interest in what is external. 'For your people have corrupted themselves' means that they have turned themselves away altogether from the Divine. 'Whom you caused to come up out of the land of Egypt' means whom, you believed, you had led to the Divine. 'They have suddenly departed from the way which I have commanded them' means that they have removed themselves from Divine Truth. 'And they have made for themselves a calf of molded [metal]' means worship in keeping with the delight belonging to that nation's loves. 'And worshipped it, and sacrificed to it' means that they worship that delight as essential good and as essential truth. 'And said, These are your gods, O Israel' means that it is to be worshipped above all things. 'Who caused you to come up out of the land of Egypt' means which led them. 'And Jehovah said to Moses' means further instruction. 'I have seen the people' means what has been foreseen. 'And behold, it is a stiff-necked people' means that they do not receive the inflow from the Lord. 'And you, let Me alone' means that they should not be so stubbornly insistent. 'And let My anger grow hot against them, and let Me consume them' means that they turn themselves so far away from inward and thus Divine things that they are inevitably destroyed. 'And let Me make you into a great nation' means a Word somewhere else which would be good and perfect. 'And Moses entreated the face of Jehovah' means that the Lord in mercy remembered. 'And said, Why, O Jehovah, does Your anger grow hot?' means that nation's turning away. 'Against the people whom You have led out of the land of Egypt' means being raised all the way up from there. 'With great power and with a strong hand' means by Divine Power. 'Why should the Egyptians speak, saying' means those interested solely in outward things, [what they say about those raised to inward things.] 'For evil He led them out, to kill them in the mountains' means that those with whom good exists will be destroyed. 'To consume them from upon the face of the earth' means that those belonging to the Church will be destroyed. 'Turn back from the heat of Your anger' means that if He does so that nation's turning away will not be harmful. 'And repent [of the evil] against Your people' means having mercy on them. 'Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants' means for heaven and the Church's sake. 'To whom You swore by Yourself' means confirmation from the Divine. 'And spoke to them' means Foresight and Providence. 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens' means forms of good and truths, and cognitions of them. 'And all this land which I have spoken of I will give to your seed' means of which heaven and the Church consist. 'And they will inherit it into the age' means eternal life. 'And Jehovah repented of the evil which He said He would do to His people' means having mercy on them.

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