You had turned aside quickly. —The words of Jehovah in Deuteronomy 9:16, repeated here, and also recorded in Exodus 32:8.…

And I looked
When he was come down from the mount, and was nigh the camp:

and, behold, you had si…

So that the Israelites might have no pretense to think that God brought them to Canaan for their righteousness, Moses shows what a miracle of mercy…