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Exodus 32:30-35. A plea for forgiveness. Moses ascends again alone, cloak heavy in wind, burdened expression. Bronze Age Exodus setting, not first-century staging. One 16:9 single scene. No text or lettering.
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Exodus 32:30-35

A plea for forgiveness

The golden calf · Exodus 32

Story guide: Moses returns to plead for forgiveness; the people face consequences.

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30And it happened on the next day that Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to Yahweh; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”

31Then Moses returned to Yahweh and said, “Please, this people has sinned a great sin, and they have made gods of gold for themselves.”

32But now, if you will forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out of your book that you have written.

33And Yahweh said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot him out of my book.”

34But now go, lead the people to where I have spoken to you. Look, my angel will go before you; but on the day when I call them to account, I will call them to account for their sin.

35Then Yahweh struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the calf that Aaron made.

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