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To confirm this interpretation I add, first, In the tenth verse of this Chapter, God bid Moses let him alone, that his wrath might wax hot against the people, and I will make of thee a great nation. God is threatening to blot out the name of Israel, cut them off, and promiseth Moses to make of him a great nation: Nay, saith Moses, I am so far from this ambition, to be made a great nation, upon this condition, that I will let thee alone, that thy wrath may cut this people off, that I rather desire thee to blot my name out of the writing of Israel, that my name may not stand in that Record, as an head of thy people, as now I am; but let me not so much as be reckoned ⟨p. 22⟩for an Israelite, before thy Name shall suffer thus.

To confirm this interpretation I add, first, In the tenth verse of this Chapter, God bid Moses let him alone, that his wrath might wax hot against the people, and I will make of thee a great nation. God is threatning to blot out the name of Israel, cut them off, and promiseth Moses to make of him a great nation: Nay, saith Moses, I am so far from this ambition, to be made a great nation, upon this condition, that I will let thee alone, that thy wrath may cut this people off, that I rather desire thee to blot my name out of the writing of Israel, that my name may not stand in that Record, as an head of thy people, as now I am; but let me not so much as be reckoned ⟨p. 22⟩for an Israelite, before thy Name shall suffer thus.

Secondly, That God answers him, ver. 32. as I said before, that he would blot out, &c. and did visit them, and plagued them.

Thirdly, From the Hebrew Text something may be gathered; the word which our Translators render, I pray thee, is rendered, Now,