Exodus 32
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1 And
when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the
people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make
us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man
that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of
him.
2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the
golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons,
and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
3 And all the people brake off the golden
earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto
Aaron.
4 And he received them at their
hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten
calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee
up out of the land of Egypt.
5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an
altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is
a feast to the LORD.
6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and
offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat
down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
7 And the LORD said unto
Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the
land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
8 They have turned aside quickly out of the
way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have
worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy
gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
9 And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen
this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
10 Now therefore let me alone, that my
wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make
of thee a great nation.
11 And Moses besought the LORD his God, and
said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast
brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty
hand?
12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak,
and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains,
and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath,
and repent of this evil against thy people.
13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy
servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I
will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I
have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it
for ever.
14 And the LORD
repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
15 And Moses turned, and went
down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his
hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side
and on the other were they written.
16 And the tables were the work of
God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the
people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war
in the camp.
18 And he said, It is not the voice
of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of
them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that
sing do I hear.
19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came
nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger
waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath
the mount.
20 And he took the calf which they had
made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and
strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink
of it.
21 And Moses said unto Aaron,
What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon
them?
22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my
lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
23 For they said unto me, Make us gods,
which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought
us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any
gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast
it into the fire, and there came out this calf.
25 And when Moses saw that the people
were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among
their enemies:)
26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the
camp, and said, Who is on the LORD’S side? let him come unto
me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.
27 And he said unto them, Thus saith the
LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in
and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his
brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
28 And the children
of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people
that day about three thousand men.
29 For Moses had said, Consecrate
yourselves to day to the LORD, even every man upon his son, and upon his
brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.
30 And it came to pass on the
morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now
I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your
sin.
31 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and
said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of
gold.
32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their
sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast
written.
33 And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever
hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
34 Therefore now go,
lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee:
behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I
visit I will visit their sin upon them.
35 And the LORD plagued the people, because
they made the calf, which Aaron made.
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