Reference

Deuteronomy 9:19

For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the Lord was wroth against you to destroy you. But the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also.
17

And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

18

And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

19

For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the Lord was wroth against you to destroy you. But the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also.

20

And the Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.

21

And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

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Destruction / Perishing Language
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Destruction / Perishing Language

The verse describes a *potential* destruction that was averted due to Moses' intercession, making it a conditional statement about what *could have* happened rather than what *did* happen to the people. It also doesn't explicitly state the people were wicked, only that God was wroth against them.