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Exodus 32

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Exodus 32 . 1 , The people , in the absence of Moses , cause Aaron to make a calf; Exodus 32 . 7 , God informs Moses , who intercedes for Israel , and prevails; Exodus 32 . 15 , Moses comes down with the tables; Exodus 32 . 19 , He breaks them; Exodus 32 . 20 , He destroys the calf; Exodus 32 . 22 , Aaron’s excuse for himself; Exodus 32 . 25 , Moses causes the idolaters to be slain; Exodus 32 . 30 , He prays for the people.

Exodus 32:1

Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, "Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!"

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Exodus 32:2

So Aaron told them, "Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me."

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Exodus 32:3

Then all the people took off their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.

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Exodus 32:4

He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, "These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!"

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Exodus 32:5

When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before the calf and proclaimed: “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.”

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Exodus 32:6

So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.

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No doubt at this feast they sacrificed after the manner of the Egyptians

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Exodus 32:7

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.

Exodus 32:7 · BSB

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Exodus 32:8

How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”

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Exodus 32:9

The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

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Exodus 32:10

Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation."

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Exodus 32:11

But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God, saying, "O LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?

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Exodus 32:12

Why should the Egyptians declare, 'He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth'? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.

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Exodus 32:13

Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, 'I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.'"

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Exodus 32:14

So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.

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Exodus 32:15

Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.

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Exodus 32:16

The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

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Exodus 32:17

When Joshua heard the sound of the people shouting, he said to Moses, “The sound of war is in the camp.”

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Joshua had waited patiently during all the forty days , in the place where Moses had left him . below the summit of the mount , at a distance from the people , and out of the way of temptation.

Exodus 32:18

But Moses replied: “It is neither the cry of victory nor the cry of defeat; I hear the sound of singing!”

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Exodus 32:19

As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.

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Exodus 32:20

Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.

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How truly contemptible must the object of their idolatry appear , when they were obliged to drink their god , reduced to powder , and strewed on the water! Some have asked , how gold , the most ductile and ponderous of all metals , could have been stamped into dust , and strewed on the water. In

  • Deuteronomy 9:21 this is fully explained. I took , says Moses , your sin , the calf which ye had made , and burnt it with fire; that is , melted it down , probably into ingots or gross plates , and stamped it , beat it into thin lamine , something like our gold leaf , and ground it very small , even until it was as small as dust , which might be very easily done by the action of the hands , when beat into thin plates or leaves as the original words ekkoth , and dak , imply
  • Deuteronomy 7:5
  • Deuteronomy 7:25
  • Deuteronomy 9:21
  • 2 Kings 23:6
  • 2 Kings 23:15

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Exodus 32:21

“What did this people do to you,” Moses asked Aaron, “that you have led them into so great a sin?”

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Exodus 32:22

“Do not be enraged, my lord,” Aaron replied. “You yourself know that the people are intent on evil.

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Exodus 32:23

They told me, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!’

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Exodus 32:24

So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, let him take it off,’ and they gave it to me. And when I threw it into the fire, out came this calf!”

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Exodus 32:25

Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them run wild and become a laughingstock to their enemies.

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The term naked may mean either that they were unarmed and defenceless , or ashamed from the consciousness of guilt

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their enemies Heb. those that rose up against them

Exodus 32:26

So Moses stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come to me.” And all the Levites gathered around him.

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Exodus 32:27

He told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each of you men is to fasten his sword to his side, go back and forth through the camp from gate to gate, and slay his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’”

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Exodus 32:28

The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people fell dead.

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Exodus 32:29

Afterward, Moses said, “Today you have been ordained for service to the LORD, since each man went against his son and his brother; so the LORD has bestowed a blessing on you this day.”

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Or , another reading of this #### Verse is , and Moses said , Consecrate yourselves to-day to the Lord; because every man hath been against his son and against his brother , etc.

Consecrate Heb. fill your hands

Exodus 32:30

The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”

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Exodus 32:31

So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made gods of gold for themselves.

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Exodus 32:32

Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”

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Allusion may be made to the registry of births , in which those born of a particular tribe were entered in the list of their respective families under that tribe. This was the book of life; and when any died , his name might be considered as blotted out of this list. But as Moses addressed the Lord , he undoubtedly referred , by faith , to the book of God's remembrance

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Exodus 32:33

The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book.

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Exodus 32:34

Now go, lead the people to the place I described. Behold, My angel shall go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will punish them for their sin.”

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Exodus 32:35

And the LORD sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had made.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web23 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Quotations 1 Corinthians 10:7 → Exodus 32:6, 1 Kings 12:28 → Exodus 32:4, 1 Kings 12:28-29 → Exodus 32:4, Nehemiah 9:18 → Exodus 32:4
Allusions Acts 7:41 → Exodus 32:6, Numbers 14:12 → Exodus 32:10, Numbers 14:12-19 → Exodus 32:10-13, Deuteronomy 9:8 → Exodus 32, Deuteronomy 9:8-10 → Exodus 32, Jonah 3:9-10 → Exodus 32:12
Echoes Acts 1:25 → Exodus 32:8, Acts 13:48 → Exodus 32:32-33, Acts 18:25-26 → Exodus 32:8
Trajectories
Book of Life (God's Record of the Elect), Golden Calf (Idolatry and Intercession), Israel (Corporate New-Adam), Journey to the Promised Land (Christian Pilgrimage), Moses (The Prophet Like Unto Me), New Exodus (Second Exodus Pattern), Pentecost (Outpouring of the Spirit), Wilderness Testing (Faith Through Trial)
Longitudinal Themes
Mediation
Chiasms
Shaped Exodus 32:1–24
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