Exodus 32:11-13

11-13. Moses besought The intercession of Moses is seen in its graphic outline by the two words of interrogation, Why and wherefore, (the same word in the Hebrew, למה ,) and the three verbs in the imperative turn… repent… remember. It consists of solemn appeal and earnest petition . The appeals are of the nature of exclamations of soul-anguish over the thought of such penal wrath after such a triumph as the exodus, and of the reproach which the Egyptians might then exultingly and contemptuously utter. The petitions end with a pleading of the promises made to the great patriarchs.