The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book.
33. Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out In these words God adapts Himself to the comprehension of the human mind, when He says, “him will I blot out;” for hypocrites make such false profession of His name, that they are not accounted aliens, until God openly renounces them: and hence their manifest rejection is called erasure.
Moses calls it a great sin so they will not think themselves innocent, and he shows them how difficult atonement is, he must go up to the Lord himself, and even then perhaps make peace. The malignity of sin appears in the price of pardons. He who undertook to make atonement found it no easy thing to do it.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 32:30-35
Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee,.... That is, to the land of Canaan, which he had promised to their fathers and to them, and had directed Moses to bring them to: behold, mine angel shall go before thee: and not I, as Jarchi interprets it; not the Angel of the covenant, and of his presence...