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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, “Up, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2So Aaron said to them, “Take off the rings of gold that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3So all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden calf. And they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.” |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7And the LORD said to Moses, “Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’” |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And the LORD said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you.” |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11But Moses implored the LORD his God and said, “O LORD, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’” |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And the LORD relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets that were written on both sides; on the front and on the back they were written. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a noise of war in the camp.” |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18But he said, “It is not the sound of shouting for victory, or the sound of the cry of defeat, but the sound of singing that I hear.” |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses’ anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20He took the calf that they had made and burned it with fire and ground it to powder and scattered it on the water and made the people of Israel drink it. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21And Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought such a great sin upon them?” |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22And Aaron said, “Let not the anger of my lord burn hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23For they said to me, ‘Make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’ |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24So I said to them, ‘Let any who have gold take it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.” |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25And when Moses saw that the people had broken loose (for Aaron had let them break loose, to the derision of their enemies), |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, “Who is on the LORD’s side? Come to me.” And all the sons of Levi gathered around him. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27And he said to them, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel, ‘Put your sword on your side each of you, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you kill his brother and his companion and his neighbor.’” |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And that day about three thousand men of the people fell. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29And Moses said, “Today you have been ordained for the service of the LORD, each one at the cost of his son and of his brother, so that he might bestow a blessing upon you this day.” |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30The next day Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.” |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Alas, this people has sinned a great sin. They have made for themselves gods of gold. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32But now, if you will forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out of your book that you have written.” |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33But the LORD said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot out of my book. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34But now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you; behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.” |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35Then the LORD sent a plague on the people, because they made the calf, the one that Aaron made. |
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