And he said, "Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you. "Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in your midst. You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim (for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice, and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods. "You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.
Exodus 34:10-17
Here is God's answer to Moses' plea in 9. The covenant is renewed, and He takes them for His inheritance. It is impressive to look back to see the extent of Moses' intercession for the people. In 32:11-14, it was deliverance from the destruction of divine wrath; in 32:30-35 it was forgiveness that was won; in 33:12-17 it was the restoration of the divine presence; and now here, the renewal of the covenant prayer wrought a complete reinstatement. What a lesson in effectual intercession! It was the daring of a consecrated faith. 'Concerning the work of My hands, command ye Me' (Isaiah 45:11). One recalls the earlier remarkable word in the account of the confrontation between Moses and Pharaoh, when, after a series of statements in which it is said that 'Moses did according to the word of the Lord', it is recorded in 8:13 that 'the Lord did according to the Word of Moses'. The patriarch knew the secret of how to move the Hand that moves the world. Such is the evidence of this passage.