Exodus 32:34

32:34 So now go, lead the people to the place I have spoken to you about. See, ¹  my angel will go before you. But on the day that I punish, I will indeed punish them for their sin.” ² 

Exodus 33:1

33:1 The Lord said to Moses, “Go up ³  from here, you and the people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land I promised on oath ⁴  to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ ⁵ 

[32:34]  ¹ tn Heb “behold, look.” Moses should take this fact into consideration.

[32:34]  ² sn The Law said that God would not clear the guilty. But here the punishment is postponed to some future date when he would revisit this matter. Others have taken the line to mean that whenever a reckoning was considered necessary, then this sin would be included (see B. Jacob, Exodus, 957). The repetition of the verb traditionally rendered “visit” in both clauses puts emphasis on the certainty – so “indeed.”

[33:1]  ³ tn The two imperatives underscore the immediacy of the demand: “go, go up,” meaning “get going up” or “be on your way.”

[33:1]  ⁴ tn Or “the land which I swore.”

[33:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “seed.”