Exodus 32:10; Exodus 32:12

10 Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”

12 Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people.