出埃及記32:30-35

32:30 到了第二天，摩西對百姓說：「你們犯了大罪。我如今要上耶和華那裡去，或者可以為你們贖罪。」
32:31 摩西回到耶和華那裡，說：「唉！這百姓犯了大罪，為自己做了金像。
32:32 倘或你肯赦免他們的罪……不然，求你從你所寫的冊上塗抹我的名。」
32:33 耶和華對摩西說：「誰得罪我，我就從我的冊上塗抹誰的名。
32:34 現在你去領這百姓，往我所告訴你的地方去，我的使者必在你前面引路；只是到我追討的日子，我必追討他們的罪。」
32:35 耶和華殺百姓的緣故是因他們同亞倫做了牛犢

³⁰ The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. But now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”

³¹ So Moses went back to the Lord and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold. ³² But now, please forgive their sin—but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.”

³³ The Lord replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book. ³⁴ Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.”

³⁵ And the Lord struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made.

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    摩西相信在上帝那裡有一本生命冊，只要名字記載在上面的必得救，所以他向上帝說：「唉！這百姓犯了大罪，為自己做了金像。倘或你肯赦免他們的罪……不然，求你從你所寫的冊上塗抹我的名。」

    但是上帝回答得更有意思：「誰得罪我，我就從我的冊上塗抹誰的名。現在你去領這百姓，往我所告訴你的地方去，我的使者必在你前面引路；只是到我追討的日子，我必追討他們的罪。」

    可見上帝不是隨人左右的上帝，即使是有人向祂懇求，祂仍然照著祂的法則，不會有所通融，祂是永恆的上帝！