30. On the next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin, and now I will go up to the Lord. Perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”
31. Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Oh, this people has committed a great sin and have made a god of gold for themselves.
32. Yet now, if You will, forgive their sin, but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written.”