31 And Moses returned to the Lord, and said, 'O [Lord!] this people have committed a great sin: they have made for themselves a god of gold;

32 Forgive them their sin, and if not, blot me also out of thy book in which thou hast written.

33 And the Lord said unto Moses, He that hath sinned against me, I will blot out of my book;

34 therefore go, [go down,] lead this people whither I have told you; behold, my angel shall go before thee, and in the day of my visitation I will visit them for their sin.

35 And the Lord smote the people because of the calf which Aaron had made.

Chapter 33

1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, depart from hence, thou and the people whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, into the land of which I swore to Abraham, and to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, To thy seed I will give it;

2 And I will send an angel before thee, and I will drive out the Canaanites, and the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites,

3 [and he will bring you] into a land flowing with milk and honey; for I myself will not go among you, lest I destroy you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.

4 And when the people heard this terrible word, they wept, and no one put on his ornaments.

5 For the Lord said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked people; if I go among you, I will destroy you in a moment; therefore take off your adornments; I'll see what I can do with you.

6 And the children of Israel took off their ornaments at Mount Horeb.

7 And Moses took and set up for himself a tent outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it the tabernacle of meeting; and every one who sought the Lord came to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.

8 And when Moses went out to the tabernacle, all the people arose, and stood every one at the entrance of his tent, and looked after Moses, until he entered into the tabernacle.