5. After Moshe’s initial successful intervention following the Sin of the Golden Calf- Shemot 32-33:11

I was atop Mountain Sinai, and I was late coming back to the people.  I felt bad for Aaron, who was in charge of them, because I knew he would have to deal with their incessant complaining.  All of a sudden, though, G-d told me that I needed to go down because bnei Israel were acting corruptly praying to an idol.  I prayed to him to have mercy upon the people and not to kill all of them with His anger.  I mean come on, I had to deal with these people droning on and on about their problems, and as soon as they do something wrong in His eyes, He can just kill all of them!?  That’s not fair!  On the other hand, if He had actually killed all of them, I wouldn’t have had to deal with them… no, it’s not right for Him to kill all of my people.

                  When I got down, though, I got really angry with the people, broke the stone tablets and even melted the cow down and told the people to drink the molten gold.  Then Aaron started protecting himself by saying that the people forced him to make the calf, and that he didn’t mean to make it, it just appeared out of the fire (like that really happened).  But, as the Lord commanded, I grouped together the Levites and had them kill a bunch of regular Israelites, around 3000, then I repented to G-d for their sins, and G-d said that one day he will judge people for their sins… oh, and He sent a plague down and killed a bunch of them for making the calf.  I do feel a little bad for the people, not only do they get the full blame from Aaron, but I also ordered the murder of many of my own people, G-d will probably kill a bunch of them down the road when He judges them, and to top it all off, they now have the plague.

                  Lastly, G-d then told me to tell the people that they were too annoying for Him, so He would have an angel walk with us and destroy our enemies.  However, I could still speak/meet with Him in a tent I pitched.