Exodus 14:1-12 14Then theLordsaid to Moses,2Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp near Pi Hahiroth, between Migdoland the sea. They are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal Zephon.3Pharaoh will think, The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert.4And I will harden Pharaohs heart,and he will pursue them.But I will gain gloryfor myself through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am theLord.So the Israelites did this. 5When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled,Pharaoh and his officials changed their mindsabout them and said, What have we done? We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services!6So he had his chariot made ready and took his army with him.7He took six hundred of the best chariots,along with all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them.8TheLordhardened the heartof Pharaoh king of Egypt, so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out boldly.9The Egyptiansall Pharaohs horsesand chariots, horsemen[a]and troopspursued the Israelites and overtookthem as they camped by the sea near Pi Hahiroth, opposite Baal Zephon. 10As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and criedout to theLord.11They said to Moses, Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die?What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?12Didnt we say to you in Egypt, Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!

Exodus 32:1-14 32 1When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain,they gathered around Aaron and said, Come, make us gods[a]who will go beforeus. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we dont know what has happened to him. 2Aaron answered them, Take off the gold earringsthat your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.3So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron.4He took what they handed him and made it into an idolcast in the shape of a calf,fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, These are your gods,[b]Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt. 5When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and announced, Tomorrow there will be a festivalto theLord.6So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings.Afterward they sat down to eat and drinkand got up to indulge in revelry. 7Then theLordsaid to Moses, Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt,have become corrupt.8They have been quick to turn awayfrom what I commanded them and have made themselves an idolcast in the shape of a calf.They have bowed down to it and sacrificedto it and have said, These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt. 9I have seen these people, theLordsaid to Moses, and they are a stiff-neckedpeople.10Now leave me aloneso that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroythem. Then I will make you into a great nation. 11But Moses sought the favorof theLordhis God. Lord, he said, why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?12Why should the Egyptians say, It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth?Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disasteron your people.13Rememberyour servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self:I will make your descendants as numerous as the starsin the sky and I will give your descendants all this landI promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.14Then theLordrelentedand did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.