The Mercy of God's Mercy, Is Not Retributive Justice?

The slaying of those who had built the calf is a part of the justice. Is not in contradiction? Is te right for the sake of those livingy and i think now, whenever i start hearingdiscuss of justice like you just gave us, daniel,. i think about the bible project - they remind us that in the western cultural mind set, when we think of justice, we think of retributive justice. But the bible project says that in the bible, most of the time, justice is not retributive. Its restorative. And that's where mercy kicksWhere mercy restores the person who may be expected judgment from what they have done but what they get is restoration instead