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The Book of Exodus 32

32 And the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, and the people gathered themselves around Aaron and said to him, “Arise, make gods for us that shall go before our faces, for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.”

2 And Aaron said to them, “Tear off the rings of gold that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters and bring them to me.” 3 And all the people tore the rings of gold off themselves that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron. 4 And he took it from their hand, and fashioned it with a tool, and he made a calf of molten metal. And they said, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.” 5 And Aaron saw, and he built an altar before the face of it, and Aaron proclaimed and said, “Tomorrow will be a festival to Yahweh.” 6 And they arose early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and to drink and got up to play.

7 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go! Descend! For your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. 8 They have quickly turned from the way that I commanded them. They have made a calf of molten metal for themselves and have bowed before it and sacrificed to it. And they have said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt.’ ” 9 And Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a people hard of neck. 10 So now, leave me alone! And let my nose burn against them, and I will destroy them. And I will make you into a great nation.”

11 But Moses entreated the face of Yahweh his God. And he said, “Yahweh, why does your nose burn against your people whom you have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians say, saying, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from on the face of the ground’? Turn from your burning nose and repent from the evil to your people. 13 Remember Abraham and Isaac and Israel, your servants that you swore to them by yourself and spoke to them, ‘I will cause your descendants to increase as the stars of the heavens, and I will give to your descendants all this land of which I have spoken. And they will inherit it forever.’ ” 14 Then Yahweh repented from the evil that he had spoken to do to his people.

15 And Moses turned and went down from the mountain and the two tablets of the testimony were in his hand. The tablets were written on both their sides, on this side and on that side they were written. 16 And the tablets, they were the work of God. And the writing, it was the writing of God, it was engraved on the tablets.

17 And Joshua heard the noise of the people in its shouting, and he said to Moses, “There is the noise of war in the camp.”

18 But Moses said,

“There is not the sound of singing of strength,

and there is not the sound of singing of weakness,

the sound of singing I am hearing.”

19 And it happened, as he approached to the camp, that he saw the calf and dancing, and the nose of Moses burned, and he threw the tablets from his hands and shattered them under the mountain. 20 And he took the calf that they had made and burned it in the fire and ground it until it was fine and scattered it on the face of the water and caused the sons of Israel to drink it.

21 And Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?”

22 And Aaron said, “Do not let your nose burn, my lord. You know the people, that it is/was in evil. 23 And they said to me, ‘Make for us a god that will go before our faces. As for this Moses, the man that brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’ 24 And I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, take it off yourself.’ And they gave it to me, and I threw it in the fire, and this calf came out.”

25 And Moses saw the people, that it was let loose, for Aaron had let it loose, to mockery by the risers-up against them. 26 And Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, “Who is for Yahweh, to me!” And all of the sons of Levi gathered themselves to him. 27 And he said to them, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: ‘Each man put his sword on his side. Pass through and return from gate to gate in the camp and kill each his brother and each his companion and each his neighbor.’ ” 28 And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And on that day about 3,000 men from the people fell. 29 And Moses said, “Fill your hand for Yahweh today! For a man was against his son and against his brother and for putting a blessing on yourselves today.”

30 And it happened the next day that Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I can atone for your sin.” 31 And Moses returned to Yahweh and said, “Oh, this people has sinned a great sin and made themselves gods of gold. 32 But now, if you forgive their sin; but if not, please blot me out of your book that you have written.”

33 But Yahweh said to Moses, “Whoever that sinned against me, I will blot him out from my book. 34 So now go, lead the people to where I have spoken to you! Behold, my angel will go before your face. But on the day I visit them, then I will visit their sin on them.”

35 And Yahweh plagued the people because they had made the calf (that Aaron made).

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