Jordan B. Peterson

And there fell of the people that day about three thousand men."

For Moses had said, consecrate yourself today to the Lord upon even every man, upon his son and upon his brother, that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.

And it came to pass on the moral,

that Moses said unto the people, ye have sinned a great sin, and now I will go up unto the Lord.

Peradventure, I shall make an atonement to bring us together for your sin.

And Moses returned unto the Lord and said, oh, this people have sinned a great sin and have made them gods of gold.

Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin,

And if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

So do you read that as his taking on of the fullest form of responsibility, even despite the fact that he's an outsider who hasn't been listened to, who's been betrayed consistently?

I think, yeah, you see that very well.

In fact, I mean, it's almost as if God recognizes the sort of Moses' sort of status as a kind of an outsider in that just in the previous chapter, verse 10, he says, I will make of thee a great nation.

We'll forget about the Israelites.

And Moses refuses that.

He says, no, he recalls God to the covenant, to the original covenant.

Right.

Yeah.

Well, it's very interesting that Moses is offered that option because that's another way out of the sin is like to hell with all this.

We'll just start new.

Like, well, essentially like Noah.

And Moses rejects that.