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Ramban on Exodus 32:34/רמב"ן על שמות ל״ב:ל״ד
אוְעַתָּה לֵךְ נְחֵה אֶת הָעָם כִּי אַחֲרֵי שֶׁנִּחַמְתִּי מִלְּכַלּוֹתָם נְחֵם אַתָּה אֶל אֲשֶׁר דִּבַּרְתִּי לָךְ, אֶל מְקוֹם הַכְּנַעֲנִי וְהָאֱמֹרִי וְגוֹ', אֲבָל לֹא רָצָה לְהַזְכִּיר כֵּן שֶׁזֶּה דֶּרֶךְ כַּעַס, כְּאוֹמֵר מַה שֶׁדִּבַּרְתִּי לְךָ אֶעֱשֶׂה לִכְבוֹדְךָ, אֲבָל לֹא אֶשָּׂא חַטָּאתָם, כִּי בְיוֹם פָּקְדִי וּפָקַדְתִּי עֲלֵיהֶם חַטָּאתָם, אֶפְקֹד אוֹתוֹ עֲלֵיהֶם אַחֲרֵי בּוֹאָם אֶל הָאָרֶץ, וְזֶה רֶמֶז לָעֵת שֶׁיִּגְלוּ מִמֶּנָּה, אוֹ לְמָה שֶׁאָמְרוּ רַבּוֹתֵינוּ (סנהדרין קב) שֶׁאֵין לְךָ פּוּרְעָנוּת שֶׁאֵין בָּהּ אֻקְיָא מֵעֲוֹן הָעֵגֶל:
1AND NOW GO, LEAD THE PEOPLE. [G-d is saying here:] “Since I have repented from destroying them, lead them unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee — to the place of the Amorite, the Canaanite, etc.” However, He did not want to mention this expressly, for this was said in a manner of anger, as if to say: “What I have said to you, I shall do in your honor, but I will not forgive them their sin, for in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them — I will visit it upon them even after they come to the Land.” This was an allusion to the time of the exile, or to what our Rabbis have said406 that “No punishment [ever comes upon Israel] in which there is not a small part for the sin of the golden calf.”