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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0;"/><title>Exodus 32 Expositor's Dictionary of Texts</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/commentaries/edt/exodus/321.htm" /><link href='//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cardo&subset=greek-ext' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'><link rel="stylesheet" href="/5001.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 4800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 4800px)" href="/4801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1550px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1550px)" href="/1551.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1250px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1250px)" href="/1251.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1050px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1050px)" href="/1051.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 900px), only screen and (max-device-width: 900px)" href="/901.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 800px)" href="/801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/501.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h451.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/32.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/bmcom/exodus/32-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">EDT</a> > <a href="../exodus/">Exodus</a></div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/31.htm" title="Exodus 31">◄</a> Exodus 32 <a href="../exodus/33.htm" title="Exodus 33">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Expositor's Dictionary of Texts</div><div class="chap"> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-1.htm">Exodus 32:1</a></div><div class="verse">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 <i>as for</i> this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.</div><span class="ital"><a href="/exodus/32-2.htm" title="And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.">Exodus 32:2</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Who would not have been ashamed to hear this answer from the brother of Moses, 'Pluck off your earrings'? He should have said, 'Pluck this idolatrous thought out of your hearts'.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>—Bishop Hall.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital"><a href="/exodus/32-3.htm" title="And all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.">Exodus 32:3</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Unless reason be employed in ascertaining what doctrines are revealed, humility cannot be exercised in acquiescing in them; and there is surely at least as much presumption in measuring everything by our own fancies, feelings, and prejudices, as by our own reasonings. Such voluntary humiliation is a prostration, not of ourselves before God, but of one part of ourselves before another part, and resembles the idolatry of the Israelites in the wilderness: 'The people <span class="ital">stripped themselves</span> of their golden ornaments, and cast them into the fire, and there came out this calf.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>—Archbishop Whately, <span class="ital">Annotations to Bacon's Essays</span> (i.).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital"><a href="/exodus/32-4.htm" title="And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a engraving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.">Exodus 32:4</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>It is the very joy of man's heart to admire, where he can; nothing so lifts him from all his mean imprisonments, were it but for moments, as true admiration. Thus it has been said, 'All men, especially all women, are born worshippers'; and will worship, if it be but possible. Possible to worship a Something, even a small one; not so possible a mere loud-blaring Nothing! What sight is more pathetic than that of poor multitudes of persons met to gaze at Kings' Progresses, Lord Mayors' Shows, and other gilt-gingerbread phenomena of the worshipful sort, in these times; each so eager to worship; each, with a dim fatal sense of disappointment, finding that he cannot lightly here! These be thy gods, O Israel? and thou art so <span class="ital">willing</span> to worship—poor Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>—Carlyle in <span class="ital">Past and Present.</span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital"><a href="/exodus/32-5.htm" title="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.">Exodus 32:5</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Writing in 1657 to Lord Craighall, Samuel Rutherford warns him seriously against kneeling before the consecrated elements. 'Neither will your <span class="ital">intention</span> help, which is not of the essence of worship; for then, Aaron in saying, "To-morrow shall be a feast for Jehovah,' that is, for the golden calf, should not have been guilty of idolatry; for he <span class="ital">intended</span> only to decline the lash of the people's fury, not to honour the calf. Your intention to honour Christ is nothing, seeing that religious kneeling, by God's institution, doth necessarily impart religious and Divine adoration.'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Recreations and Amusements</span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital"><a href="/exodus/32-6.htm" title="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.">Exodus 32:6</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>I. We must have 'play'. Even the children of Israel must. We have great examples in this matter. Our Incarnate Lord and His Apostles had their feasts as well as their fasts; their quiet hours as well as their hours crowded with holy toil.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Such 'play' is greatly needed in our overworked days. Physical labour requires mental amusement, and mental labour demands physical recreation.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>The words 'amusement' and 'recreation' are in themselves full of suggestiveness. The idea of the word 'amusement' is 'to draw the mind to' something lighter. 'Recreation' obviously signifies a fresh creation.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Everything, however, depends upon the quality and the quantity of our recreations and amusements.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>II. Let me enumerate some good amusements and recreations. Some 'play' that is to be held honourable to all.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Earliest in such a category I would place pure light literature.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Music, at home and in public, is one of the most exalted and delightful of recreations.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Art offers splendid and tranquil amusement and recreation.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>What delights modern science opens to the multitude! Nature teems with instructive delights.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>I hardly need to remind young men or young women in these times of the athletic pleasures which abound.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>A good walk in the city streets will, if we practise an educated observation, be a manifold benefit to us. Charles Kingsley said that a walk along Regent Street was an intellectual tonic. A walk in the country, especially with the ministry of pleasant and profitable conversation, may be a memorable and every way beneficial experience.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>The pleasures of travel are happily now by the cooperative plan within reach of large numbers of young people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Church life affords the best recreation to some. Ever remember the noble words of Dean Church, 'Every real part of our life ought to be part of our Christian life'.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>III. Suffer me to warn you against certain evil amusements and recreations.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Shun that class of entertainments which vulgarizes and sullies mind and soul.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>It is not wholly superfluous to caution you against exhausting amusements. Whatever impairs your vital energy and lowers your physical tone is a foe to your highest well-being. Nor is it fatuous to enter a caution against such amusements and recreations as disincline you for more serious pursuits. Few, if any, amusements work such injury as do betting and gambling.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>The 'play' in which Israel occupied itself and to which my text refers was arrantly unworthy. May this ancient lapse save us from similar lapse. Take heed lest evil 'play' discredit and ruin you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Christ is the ultimate source of true pleasures. He causes these to abound to the believing soul.—Dinsdale T. Young, <span class="ital">Messages for Home and Life,</span> p. 47.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">Illustration.</span>—You have heard the story of the young hunter at Ephesus: returning from the chase with his unstrung bow in his hand he entered the house of the venerable St. John. To his utter astonishment John was playing with a tame dove. He indicated his surprise that the seer should be so frivolously occupied. St. John asked him why he carried his bow unstrung. 'In order that my bow may retain its elasticity,' was his immediate reply. 'Just so,' said St. John; 'and mind and body will not retain their elasticity or usefulness unless they are at times unstrung; prolonged tension destroys their power.'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>—Dinsdale T. Young, <span class="ital">Messages for Home and Life,</span> p. 47.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span> References.—XXXII. 7-14.—Spurgeon, <span class="ital">Sermons,</span> vol. xlii. No. 2486. XXXII. 10, 31, 32.—T. G. Selby, <span class="ital">The God of the Patriarchs,</span> p. 185. XXXII. 14.—Spurgeon, <span class="ital">Sermons,</span> vol. xli. No. 2398. XXXII. 15-26.—A. Maclaren, <span class="ital">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span>—<span class="ital">Exodus,</span> etc., p. 177.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Epiphany</span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital"><a href="/exodus/32-18.htm" title="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.">Exodus 32:18</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>I. The pleading supplication, 'I beseech Thee, show me Thy glory,' is the language of the human heart, under the pressure of the deepest desire man can experience. It is the voicing of the ceaseless, agelong yearning on the part of man for tangible, ocular demonstration of God. And the answer given to Moses is an authoritative declaration of the only demonstration of the existence and character of God possible to beings in the finite condition of earth's education.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>The only proof of the existence of any primal force is that force in action; the absolute is only known as it is conditioned. God to us, only <span class="ital">is</span> as He <span class="ital">acts;</span> and so the answer to the universal appeal of humanity is, 'I will make all My goodness pass before thee'.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>II. The unwillingness on the part of man to accept this answer of God as final has been the cause of most of the defective apprehension, narrowness, superstition, and second-hand religion which have clipped the wings of Godward growth. He who follows God's clue is he whose eyes are slowly opened. God makes all His goodness to pass before him. He has discovered and acknowledged physical beauty in the universe, and moral beauty in man; he infers logically that there must be a Divine ideal of both physical and moral beauty, of which he has recognized the shadow, and he knows that that Divine ideal must be God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Moses, the servant of the Lord, affords a striking example, from the ancient world, of a standard thus slowly raised, till his one absorbing need was to see God. He had followed the clue. Symbolisms and limitations had no power to satisfy the instincts of his heart, and his whole soul goes out in the cry, 'I beseech Thee, show me Thy glory'. A picture-lesson of the same process is afforded by our Lord's dealings with His disciples. Slowly He unfolds their aspirations, as the sun unfolds a flower. At, last, one of them, as the spokesman of the rest, bursts out with the cry, 'Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us'. And in each case the answer is the same: to Moses it is, 'I will make all My goodness pass before thee'; to Philip it is, 'Have I been so long time with you, and hast thou not known Me, Philip? He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>III. Now, is not this the meaning of the Festival of the Epiphany? The story of that star leading thoughtful Zoroastrians across the wilderness to Bethlehem, is the analogy of the secret drawing of the Infinite Mother-Heart, leading watchful souls through the deserts of materialism, idolatry, imperfect Theism, to the oasis of the Incarnation, the highest philosophical demonstration of the character of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Two conditions appear to be suggested by today's Epiphany teaching as pre-requisite for the right apprehension of this full restful revelation of God: the one is aspiration, the other is activity. God is often not known because He is not wanted. At the threshold of every spiritual function there is a want, a restlessness, a desire, a hunger, that the largest promises of the world cannot fill. Prayer, thought, aspiration, will quicken and vitalize that blessed restlessness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>The second condition is activity, usefulness, ministry. A life of selfish vanity, a life of idle indulgence, a life of mean self-concentration, may have a good deal of religion in it, but it cannot see God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>—B. Wilberforce, <span class="ital">Following on to Know the Lord,</span> p. 57.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">Illustration.</span>—O, my God, let me see Thee; and if to see Thee is to die, let me die, that I may see Thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>—<span class="ital">Prayer of St. Augustine,</span> p. 58.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span> References.—XXXII. 24.—J. H. Halsey, <span class="ital">The Spirit of Truth,</span> p. 261. XXXII. 26.—H. J. Wilmot-Buxton, <span class="ital">God's Heroes,</span> p. 197. C. Perren, <span class="ital">Revival Sermons in Outline,</span> p. 303. Spurgeon, <span class="ital">Sermons,</span> vol. xxvi. No. 1531; see also vol. 1. No. 2884. XXXII. 31, 32.—E. L. Hull, <span class="ital">Sermons Preached at King's Lynn</span> (3rd Series), p. 106.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital"><a href="/exodus/32-32.htm" title="Yet now, if you will forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray you, out of your book which you have written.">Exodus 32:32</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>'Not by reading, but by some bitterly painful experience,' said Maurice (<span class="ital">Life,</span> i. p. 171), 'I seem to have been taught that to aim at any good to myself while I contemplate myself apart from the whole body of Christ, is a kind of contradiction.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Let my name be blotted out, and my memory perish, if only France may be free.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>—Danton.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital"><a href="/exodus/32-35.htm" title="And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.">Exodus 32:35</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Afflictions speak convincingly, and will be heard when preachers cannot. If our dear Lord did not put these thorns under our head, we should sleep out our lives and lose our glory.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>—Baxter, <span class="ital">Saints' Rest,</span> chap. x.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span> References.—XXXIII.—W. Gray Elmslie, <span class="ital">Expository Lectures and Sermons,</span> p. 295. XXXIII. 7.—Spurgeon, <span class="ital">Sermons,</span> vol. vii. No. 359. XXXIII.—R. J. Campbell, <span class="ital">City Temple Sermons,</span> p. 27. C. Brown, <span class="ital">Christian World Pulpit,</span> vol. lxix. 1906, p. 273. XXXIII. 12-14.—H. Varley, <span class="ital">Spiritual Light and Life,</span> p. 97. XXXIII. 12-23.—A. Maclaren, <span class="ital">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span>—<span class="ital">Exodus,</span> etc., p. 186.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-2.htm">Exodus 32:2</a></div><div class="verse">And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which <i>are</i> in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring <i>them</i> unto me.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-3.htm">Exodus 32:3</a></div><div class="verse">And all the people brake off the golden earrings which <i>were</i> in their ears, and brought <i>them</i> unto Aaron.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-4.htm">Exodus 32:4</a></div><div class="verse">And he received <i>them</i> at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These <i>be</i> thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-5.htm">Exodus 32:5</a></div><div class="verse">And when Aaron saw <i>it</i>, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow <i>is</i> a feast to the LORD.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-6.htm">Exodus 32:6</a></div><div class="verse">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.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-7.htm">Exodus 32:7</a></div><div class="verse">And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted <i>themselves</i>:</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-8.htm">Exodus 32:8</a></div><div class="verse">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 <i>be</i> thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-9.htm">Exodus 32:9</a></div><div class="verse">And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it <i>is</i> a stiffnecked people:</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-10.htm">Exodus 32:10</a></div><div class="verse">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.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-11.htm">Exodus 32:11</a></div><div class="verse">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?</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-12.htm">Exodus 32:12</a></div><div class="verse">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.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-13.htm">Exodus 32:13</a></div><div class="verse">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 <i>it</i> for ever.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-14.htm">Exodus 32:14</a></div><div class="verse">And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-15.htm">Exodus 32:15</a></div><div class="verse">And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony <i>were</i> in his hand: the tables <i>were</i> written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other <i>were</i> they written.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-16.htm">Exodus 32:16</a></div><div class="verse">And the tables <i>were</i> the work of God, and the writing <i>was</i> the writing of God, graven upon the tables.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-17.htm">Exodus 32:17</a></div><div class="verse">And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, <i>There is</i> a noise of war in the camp.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-18.htm">Exodus 32:18</a></div><div class="verse">And he said, <i>It is</i> not the voice of <i>them that</i> shout for mastery, neither <i>is it</i> the voice of <i>them that</i> cry for being overcome: <i>but</i> the noise of <i>them that</i> sing do I hear.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-19.htm">Exodus 32:19</a></div><div class="verse">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.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-20.htm">Exodus 32:20</a></div><div class="verse">And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt <i>it</i> in the fire, and ground <i>it</i> to powder, and strawed <i>it</i> upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink <i>of it</i>.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-21.htm">Exodus 32:21</a></div><div class="verse">And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-22.htm">Exodus 32:22</a></div><div class="verse">And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they <i>are set</i> on mischief.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-23.htm">Exodus 32:23</a></div><div class="verse">For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for <i>as for</i> this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-24.htm">Exodus 32:24</a></div><div class="verse">And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break <i>it</i> off. So they gave <i>it</i> me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-25.htm">Exodus 32:25</a></div><div class="verse">And when Moses saw that the people <i>were</i> naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto <i>their</i> shame among their enemies:)</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-26.htm">Exodus 32:26</a></div><div class="verse">Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who <i>is</i> on the LORD'S side? <i>let him come</i> unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-27.htm">Exodus 32:27</a></div><div class="verse">And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, <i>and</i> 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.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-28.htm">Exodus 32:28</a></div><div class="verse">And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-29.htm">Exodus 32:29</a></div><div class="verse">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.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-30.htm">Exodus 32:30</a></div><div class="verse">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.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-31.htm">Exodus 32:31</a></div><div class="verse">And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-32.htm">Exodus 32:32</a></div><div class="verse">Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-33.htm">Exodus 32:33</a></div><div class="verse">And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-34.htm">Exodus 32:34</a></div><div class="verse">Therefore now go, lead the people unto <i>the place</i> 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.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/exodus/32-35.htm">Exodus 32:35</a></div><div class="verse">And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.</div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Nicoll - Expositor's Dictionary of Texts<br /><br />Text Courtesy of <a href="//biblesupport.com" target="_top">BibleSupport.com</a>. 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