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OET-RV by cross-referenced section EXO 32:1

EXO 32:1–32:35 ©

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The gold bull idol

Exo 32:1–35

Deu 9:6–29

32:1 The gold bull idol

(Deu. 9:6-29)

32Meanwhile, the people had noticed that Mosheh had been up on the mountain for a long time, so they people gathered themselves around Aharon and told him, “Come on. Make some gods for us that can go ahead of us, because we don’t know what’s happened to that Mosheh—the man[fn] who brought us out of Egypt.”[ref]

2Aharon replied, “Go and get the gold earrings off your wives and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me.” 3So the people took off all their gold earrings and brought them to Aharon, 4and he took them and smelted and crafted the gold into the form of a young bull. Then the people said, “These are your gods,[fn] Israel, who brought you out of Egypt.”[ref]

5When Aharon saw that, he built an altar in front of the bull and announced, “Tomorrow will be a festival to honour Yahweh.” 6So they got up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. Then the people sat down to eat and drink, then stood up to make merry.[ref]

7Then Yahweh told Mosheh, “Go on down because your people that you brought out of Egypt have gone bad— 8they’ve quickly deviated from what I instructed them. They’ve made a metal bull for themselves and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and they’ve said, ‘Israel, these are your gods that brought you out of Egypt.’ ” 9Then Yahweh said to Mosheh, “I’ve seen this people, and look, they’re so stubborn. 10So leave me alone now and let my anger rage against them. I will destroy them and make you into a great nation.” 11But Mosheh pleaded with his God Yahweh and asked, “Yahweh, why are you angry at your people that you have brought out of Egypt with your incredible power and actions?[ref] 12If you did that, the Egyptians would say, ‘Ha, he brought them out with evil plans to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from off the earth’? Turn from your anger and repent from any idea of doing evil to your people. 13Remember Abraham and Yitshak and Yisra’el—your servants that you swore to them yourself and told them, ‘I will cause your descendants to increase like the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land which I told you about, and they will inherit it forever.’ ”[ref] 14So Yahweh repented from the evil that he’d said he’d do to his people.

15Then Mosheh turned and went down the mountain carrying the two tablets with the transcript. The tablets were engraved on both sides—front and back. 16They were God’s work—it was his writing and he had inscribed it on the tablets. 17As they descended, Yehoshua heard the sounds of people shouting and said to Mosheh, “It sounds like a war going on down there in the camp!” 18But Mosheh responded, “It’s not a victory march, and it’s not moans of defeat—it’s singing that I can hear!” 19Then as they approached the camp, they saw the bull and the dancing, and Mosheh got very angry and threw the tablets down at the bottom of the mountain and they shattered. 20He took the bull they had made and burned it in the fire, then he ground it down until it was powder and sprinkled it on top of pots of water and made the Israelis drink it.

21Then Mosheh demanded from Aharon, “What did these people do to you to make you bring such a terrible sin on them?” 22Aharon responded, “Don’t be angry with me, my master. You know the peoplethey’re intent on evil. 23They insisted, saying, ‘Make a god for us to lead us. As for that Mosheh—the man that brought us out of Egyptwe don’t know what’s happened to him.’ 24So I told them, ‘Anyone who has gold jewelry, take it off yourself,’ and they gave it to me and I threw it into the fire, and this bull came out.”

25Mosheh saw that the people were out of control because Aharon had let them go wild, and now they were subject to mockery from any group that stood up against them. 26Then Mosheh stood at the camp entrance and asked, “Anyone who’s for Yahweh, come to me.” And all the men from the clan of Levi gathered around him. 27Then he told them, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each man must strap his sword on his side. Pass through and return from gate to gate in the camp and kill the unfaithful men—even if it’s your brother, or friend, or neighbour.’ ” 28The Levite men did what Mosheh ordered and they killed about three thousand Israeli men that day. 29Then Mosheh told them, “Consecrate yourselves to Yahweh today, because any man who stood against his son or his brother today has placed a blessing on himself.”

30The next day, Mosheh told the people, “You all have committed a terrible sin, but now I will go up to Yahwehperhaps I can atone for your sin.” 31So Mosheh returned to Yahweh and said, “Please, these people have committed a terrible sin and made gods for themselves out of gold. 32But now, maybe you’ll forgive their sin, but if not, please blot me out of your book that you’ve written.”[ref] 33But Yahweh said to Mosheh, “It’s anyone who sinned against me that I’ll blot out of my book. 34So go now and lead the people to where I’ve spoken to you. See, my angel will go ahead of you, but on the day that I settle accounts, then I’ll punish them for their sin.”

35Then Yahweh sent a plague on the people because they had got Aharon to make the gold bull.


32:1 The way that the people speak of Mosheh here suggests that maybe they never really ever regarded him as being one of them—remember, he did grow up in an Egyptian palace.

32:4 After crafting the gold into the form of a young bull (which wasn’t necessarily solid but may have had an internal wooden frame or a clay centre), it’s not clear here why the text refers to plural ‘gods’.


6

9:6 The gold idol of calf cow

7 8 9[ref] 10 11

12

13 14

15 16 17 18 19[ref] 20 21

22[ref] 23[ref] 24

25 26 27 28 29


Collected OET-RV cross-references

Acts 7:40:

40[ref]saying to Aaron, ‘Make some gods for us to lead us because we’ve got no idea what happened to that Mosheh who led us out of Egypt.’


7:40: Exo 32:1.

1Ki 12:28:

28So after getting advice, the king made two gold calves, and he told his people, “Going all the way down to Yerushalem is too far for you. Look, these can be your gods, Israel, who brought you out from Egypt.”[ref]


12:28: Exo 32:4.

Acts 7:41:

41[ref]So together they made a calf as an idol to bring sacrifices to, and they were pleased with what they’d achieved.


7:41: Exo 32:2-6.

1Cor 10:7:

7Don’t worship idols like some of them did, as it’s written:[ref] ‘The people sat down to eat and drink and then stood up to dance to the golden calf.’


10:7: Exo 32:6.

Num 14:13-19:

13 14 15 16 17 18 19

Gen 22:16-17:

16saying, “I, Yahweh, make this declaration by my authority and truth that because you did that and didn’t withhold your only son,[ref] 17I’ll bless you tremendously and I’ll cause your descendants to be as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the beach, and your descendants will be victorious over their enemies.[ref]


22:16-17: Heb 6:13-14.

22:17: Heb 11:12.

Gen 17:8:

8I’ll give this land that you’re staying in—the entire region of Canaan—to you and your descendants as a permanent possession, and I’ll be their God.”[ref]


17:8: Acts 7:5.

Psa 69:28:

28

Rev 3:5:

5So anyone who conquers will be dressed like that in pure white, and I certainly won’t erase their names from the Book of Life, but I’ll declare their names to my father and to his messengers.[ref]


3:5: a Exo 32:32-33; Psa 69:28; Rev 20:12; b Mat 10:32; Luk 12:8.

Exo 24:18:

18Then Mosheh entered into the cloud and continued up the mountain, and he remained up there for forty full days.[ref]


24:18: Deu 9:9.

Heb 12:21:

21Even Mosheh, when he saw how frightening everything was he said, “I’m trembling because I am afraid!”[ref]


12:21: Deu 9:19.

Num 11:3:

3

Exo 17:7:

7Mosheh named that place both ‘Massah’ (which means ‘testing’) and ‘Meribah’ (which means ‘complaining’), because of the conflict among the Israelis and because of how they tested of Yahweh by saying, ‘Is Yahweh among us or not?’

Num 11:34:

34

Num 13:17:

17

Deu 1:21:

21

Num 13:31:

31

Deu 1:26:

26[ref]


1:26: Deu 9:23; Heb 3:16.

Heb 3:16:

16Did some people heard and yet rebel? Didn’t Mosheh lead all of the people out of Egypt (Mitsrayim)?[ref]


3:16-18: Num 14:1-35.