Exodus 32:9-10

32:9 Then the Lord said to Moses: “I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are! 32:10 So now, leave me alone so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.”

Exodus 32:14

32:14 Then the Lord relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.