9 Jehovah went on to say to Moses: “I have seen that this is an obstinate* people.+ 10 So now let me be, and I will exterminate them in my burning anger, and let me make a great nation from you instead.”+

14 “As for you,* do not pray in behalf of this people. Do not cry out in their behalf or offer a prayer for them,+ for I will not be listening when they call out to me because of their calamity.