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However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.&#8221 <a href="/nlt/exodus/32.htm">New Living Translation</a> Now go, lead the people to the place I told you about. Look! My angel will lead the way before you. And when I come to call the people to account, I will certainly hold them responsible for their sins.” <a href="/esv/exodus/32.htm">English Standard Version</a> But 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.” <a href="/bsb/exodus/32.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> 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.” <a href="/kjv/exodus/32.htm">King James Bible</a> Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place 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. <a href="/nkjv/exodus/32.htm">New King James Version</a> Now therefore, go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, My Angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit for punishment, I will visit punishment upon them for their sin.” <a href="/nasb_/exodus/32.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> But go now, lead the people where I told you. Behold, My angel shall go before you; nevertheless on the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin.” <a href="/nasb/exodus/32.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220But go now, lead the people where I told you. Behold, My angel shall go before you; nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin.&#8221 <a href="/nasb77/exodus/32.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “But go now, lead the people where I told you. Behold, My angel shall go before you; nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin.” <a href="/lsb/exodus/32.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> But now go, guide the people where I told you. Behold, My angel shall go before you; nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin.” <a href="/amp/exodus/32.htm">Amplified Bible</a> But now go, lead the people [to the place] where I have told you. Behold, My Angel shall go before you; nevertheless, in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin!” <a href="/csb/exodus/32.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Now go, lead the people to the place I told you about; see, my angel will go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will hold them accountable for their sin.” <a href="/hcsb/exodus/32.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Now go, lead the people to the place I told you about; see, My angel will go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will hold them accountable for their sin.&#8221 <a href="/asv/exodus/32.htm">American Standard Version</a> And now go, lead the people unto the place 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. <a href="/cev/exodus/32.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Now take my people to the place I told you about, and my angel will lead you. But when the time comes, I will punish them for this sin." <a href="/erv/exodus/32.htm">English Revised Version</a> And now go, lead the people unto the place 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. <a href="/gwt/exodus/32.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Now, go! Lead the people to the place I told you about. My Messenger will go ahead of you. But when I punish, I will punish them for their sin." <a href="/gnt/exodus/32.htm">Good News Translation</a> Now go, lead the people to the place I told you about. Remember that my angel will guide you, but the time is coming when I will punish these people for their sin." <a href="/isv/exodus/32.htm">International Standard Version</a> Now, go, and lead the people where I told you, and now my angel will go before you, but on the day when I do punish, I'll punish them for their sin." <a href="/msb/exodus/32.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> 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.? <a href="/net/exodus/32.htm">NET Bible</a> So now go, lead the people to the place I have spoken to you about. See, my angel will go before you. But on the day that I punish, I will indeed punish them for their sin." <a href="/nheb/exodus/32.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Look, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin." <a href="/wbt/exodus/32.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Therefore now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to thee: Behold, my angel shall go before thee: Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them. <a href="/web/exodus/32.htm">World English Bible</a> Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin.” <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/exodus/32.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> and now, go, lead the people wherever I have spoken to you of; behold, My Messenger goes before you, and in the day of my charging—then I have charged their sin on them.” <a href="/ylt/exodus/32.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> and now, go, lead the people whithersoever I have spoken to thee of; lo, My messenger goeth before thee, and in the day of my charging -- then I have charged upon them their sin.' <a href="/slt/exodus/32.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And now go, lead the people to where I spake to thee: behold, my messenger shall go before thee: and in the day of my reviewing, and I reviewed upon them their sin.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/exodus/32.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> But go thou, and lead this people whither I have told thee: my angel shall go before thee. And I in the day of revenge will visit this sin also of theirs. <a href="/cpdv/exodus/32.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> But as for you, go and lead this people where I have told you. My angel will go before you. Then, on the day of retribution, I will also visit this sin of theirs.” <a href="/nabre/exodus/32.htm">New American Bible</a> Now, go and lead the people where I have told you. See, my angel will go before you. When it is time for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin. <a href="/nrsvce/exodus/32.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> But now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you; see, my angel shall go in front of you. Nevertheless, when the day comes for punishment, I will punish them for their sin.”<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/exodus/32.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Therefore now go, lead the people to the place where I tell you; behold, my angel shall go before you; nevertheless in the day when I punish I will visit their sins upon them. <a href="/hpbt/exodus/32.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And LORD JEHOVAH said to Moshe, the one who sins against me I shall obliterate from my book.<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/exodus/32.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> And now go, lead the people unto the place 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.' <a href="/sep/exodus/32.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And now go, descend, and lead this people into the place of which I spoke to thee: behold, my angel shall go before thy face; and in the day when I shall visit I will bring upon them their sin. <a href="/parallel/exodus/32-34.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kVae3PiKqhs?start=8541" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/exodus/32.htm">Moses Intercedes for Israel</a> …33The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book. 34<a href="/hebrew/6258.htm" title="6258: wə·‘at·tāh (Conj-w:: Adv) -- Now. From eth; at this time, whether adverb, conjunction or expletive.">Now</a> <a href="/hebrew/1980.htm" title="1980: lêḵ (V-Qal-Imp-ms) -- To go, come, walk. Akin to yalak; a primitive root; to walk.">go,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5148.htm" title="5148: nə·ḥêh (V-Qal-Imp-ms) -- To lead, guide. A primitive root; to guide; by implication, to transport.">lead</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5971.htm" title="5971: hā·‘ām (Art:: N-ms) -- From amam; a people; specifically, a tribe; hence troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock.">the people</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el (Prep) -- To, into, towards. ">to the place</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer- (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1696.htm" title="1696: dib·bar·tî (V-Piel-Perf-1cs) -- To speak. A primitive root; perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively, to speak; rarely to subdue.">I described.</a> <a href="/hebrew/lāḵ (Prep:: 2ms) -- "></a> <a href="/hebrew/2009.htm" title="2009: hin·nêh (Interjection) -- Lo! behold! Prolongation for hen; lo!">Behold,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4397.htm" title="4397: mal·’ā·ḵî (N-msc:: 1cs) -- A messenger. From an unused root meaning to despatch as a deputy; a messenger; specifically, of God, i.e. An angel.">My angel</a> <a href="/hebrew/1980.htm" title="1980: yê·lêḵ (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To go, come, walk. Akin to yalak; a primitive root; to walk.">shall go</a> <a href="/hebrew/6440.htm" title="6440: lə·p̄ā·ne·ḵā (Prep-l:: N-cpc:: 2ms) -- Face, faces. Plural of an unused noun; the face; used in a great variety of applications; also as a preposition.">before you.</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: ū·ḇə·yō·wm (Conj-w, Prep-b:: N-msc) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">But on the day</a> <a href="/hebrew/6485.htm" title="6485: pā·qə·ḏî (V-Qal-Inf:: 1cs) -- To attend to, visit, muster, appoint. A primitive root; to visit; by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.">I settle accounts,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6485.htm" title="6485: ū·p̄ā·qaḏ·tî (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-1cs) -- To attend to, visit, muster, appoint. A primitive root; to visit; by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.">I will punish them</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘ă·lê·hem (Prep:: 3mp) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications."></a> <a href="/hebrew/2403.htm" title="2403: ḥaṭ·ṭā·ṯām (N-fsc:: 3mp) -- Or chattacth; from chata'; an offence, and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also an offender.">for their sin.”</a> 35And the LORD sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had made.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-18.htm">Deuteronomy 9:18-20</a> Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger. / For I was afraid of the anger and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well. / The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron. <a href="/deuteronomy/9-25.htm">Deuteronomy 9:25-29</a> So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you. / And I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. / Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin. ... <a href="/numbers/14-18.htm">Numbers 14:18-20</a> ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’ / Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your loving devotion, just as You have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.” / “I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied. <a href="/numbers/14-33.htm">Numbers 14:33-34</a> Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness. / In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation. <a href="/psalms/106-23.htm">Psalm 106:23</a> So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them. <a href="/isaiah/63-9.htm">Isaiah 63:9-10</a> In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old. / But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them. <a href="/jeremiah/7-23.htm">Jeremiah 7:23-24</a> but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you. / Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward. <a href="/ezekiel/20-13.htm">Ezekiel 20:13-14</a> Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness. / But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out. <a href="/nehemiah/9-18.htm">Nehemiah 9:18-19</a> Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and when they committed terrible blasphemies, / You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go. <a href="/1_corinthians/10-11.htm">1 Corinthians 10:11</a> Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come. <a href="/hebrews/3-16.htm">Hebrews 3:16-19</a> For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? / And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? / And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed? ... <a href="/acts/7-39.htm">Acts 7:39-41</a> But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt. / They said to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us! As for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’ / At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands. <a href="/romans/11-4.htm">Romans 11:4-5</a> And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” / In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. <a href="/1_corinthians/10-6.htm">1 Corinthians 10:6-7</a> These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did. / Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.” <a href="/1_timothy/2-5.htm">1 Timothy 2:5-6</a> For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, / who gave Himself as a ransom for all—the testimony that was given at just the right time.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Therefore now go, lead the people to the place of 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 on them.mine Angel<a href="/exodus/23-20.htm">Exodus 23:20</a> Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.<a href="/exodus/33-2.htm">Exodus 33:2,14,15</a> And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: … <a href="/numbers/20-16.htm">Numbers 20:16</a> And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:the day<a href="/exodus/20-5.htm">Exodus 20:5</a> Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;<a href="/numbers/14-27.htm">Numbers 14:27-30</a> How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me… <a href="/deuteronomy/32-35.htm">Deuteronomy 32:35</a> To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/exodus/23-23.htm">Angel</a> <a href="/exodus/4-28.htm">Charged</a> <a href="/genesis/49-33.htm">Charging</a> <a href="/exodus/24-2.htm">However</a> <a href="/revelation/19-11.htm">Judging</a> <a href="/exodus/15-10.htm">Lead</a> <a href="/exodus/23-23.htm">Messenger</a> <a href="/exodus/16-27.htm">Nevertheless</a> <a href="/genesis/15-14.htm">Punish</a> <a href="/exodus/32-14.htm">Punishment</a> <a href="/exodus/32-32.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/exodus/30-12.htm">Time</a> <a href="/exodus/13-19.htm">Visit</a> <a href="/exodus/20-5.htm">Visiting</a> <a href="/exodus/32-28.htm">Word</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/exodus/33-2.htm">Angel</a> <a href="/leviticus/8-35.htm">Charged</a> <a href="/nehemiah/5-11.htm">Charging</a> <a href="/leviticus/1-9.htm">However</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-15.htm">Judging</a> <a href="/exodus/33-15.htm">Lead</a> <a href="/exodus/33-2.htm">Messenger</a> <a href="/leviticus/11-4.htm">Nevertheless</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-18.htm">Punish</a> <a href="/exodus/32-35.htm">Punishment</a> <a href="/exodus/34-7.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/exodus/34-18.htm">Time</a> <a href="/leviticus/18-25.htm">Visit</a> <a href="/exodus/34-7.htm">Visiting</a> <a href="/exodus/33-4.htm">Word</a><div class="vheading2">Exodus 32</div>1. <a href="/exodus/32-1.htm">The people in the absence of Moses, caused Aaron to make a calf</a> 7. <a href="/exodus/32-7.htm">God informs Moses, who intercedes for Israel, and prevails</a> 15. <a href="/exodus/32-15.htm">Moses comes down with the tablets</a> 19. <a href="/exodus/32-19.htm">He breaks them</a> 20. <a href="/exodus/32-20.htm">He destroys the calf</a> 22. <a href="/exodus/32-22.htm">Aaron's excuse for himself</a> 25. <a href="/exodus/32-25.htm">Moses causes the idolaters to be slain</a> 30. <a href="/exodus/32-30.htm">He prays for the people</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/exodus/32.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/exodus/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/exodus/32.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>Now go, lead the people to the place I described. This command follows the incident of the golden calf, where the Israelites turned to idolatry while Moses was on Mount Sinai. Despite their sin, God reaffirms His promise to lead them to the Promised Land, showing His faithfulness and mercy. The "place I described" refers to Canaan, a land promised to Abraham and his descendants (<a href="/genesis/12-7.htm">Genesis 12:7</a>). This directive underscores the leadership role of Moses as God's chosen mediator and guide for the Israelites.Behold, My angel shall go before you. The mention of "My angel" indicates divine guidance and protection. This angel is often interpreted as a theophany, a pre-incarnate appearance of Christ, who leads and protects God's people (<a href="/exodus/23-20.htm">Exodus 23:20-23</a>). The angel's presence reassures the Israelites of God's continued commitment to His covenant, despite their rebellion. This divine guidance is a recurring theme, as seen in the pillar of cloud and fire (<a href="/exodus/13-21.htm">Exodus 13:21-22</a>).But on the day I settle accounts, This phrase introduces the concept of divine justice and accountability. It implies that while God is merciful, He is also just and will hold people accountable for their actions. The "day I settle accounts" can be seen as a foreshadowing of future judgment, both immediate and eschatological. This reflects the biblical principle that sin has consequences, as seen in the eventual punishment of the Israelites who rebelled (<a href="/numbers/14-29.htm">Numbers 14:29-35</a>).I will punish them for their sin.” God's promise to punish sin highlights His holiness and the seriousness of idolatry. The immediate context refers to the punishment of those who participated in the golden calf incident, which included a plague (<a href="/exodus/32-35.htm">Exodus 32:35</a>). This serves as a warning to the Israelites and a reminder of the first commandment (<a href="/exodus/20-3.htm">Exodus 20:3</a>). Theologically, it points to the need for atonement and the ultimate sacrifice of Christ, who bore the punishment for sin on behalf of humanity (<a href="/isaiah/53-5.htm">Isaiah 53:5</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses</a> The leader of the Israelites, chosen by God to deliver His people from Egypt and guide them to the Promised Land. In this passage, Moses is instructed to continue leading the people despite their sin. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_israelites.htm">The Israelites</a> God's chosen people, who have just committed the sin of idolatry by worshiping the golden calf while Moses was on Mount Sinai receiving the Law. 3. <a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God (Yahweh)</a> The one true God who delivered the Israelites from Egypt. He is both just and merciful, promising to lead His people but also to hold them accountable for their sin. 4. <a href="/topical/t/the_angel_of_the_lord.htm">The Angel of the Lord</a> A divine messenger who will go before the Israelites, symbolizing God's continued presence and guidance despite their rebellion. 5. <a href="/topical/t/the_place_i_told_you.htm">The Place I Told You</a> Refers to the Promised Land, Canaan, which God had promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as an inheritance for their descendants.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/g/god's_guidance_and_presence.htm">God's Guidance and Presence</a> Despite the Israelites' sin, God promises His continued guidance through His angel. This reassures us of God's faithfulness even when we fall short. <a href="/topical/a/accountability_for_sin.htm">Accountability for Sin</a> God’s promise to punish the Israelites for their sin reminds us that while God is merciful, He is also just. Sin has consequences, and we must take responsibility for our actions. <a href="/topical/l/leadership_in_times_of_rebellion.htm">Leadership in Times of Rebellion</a> Moses is called to lead a rebellious people. This teaches us about the challenges of leadership and the importance of perseverance and reliance on God. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_intercession.htm">The Role of Intercession</a> Moses' intercession for the people earlier in the chapter shows the power and importance of praying for others, especially those who have strayed. <a href="/topical/t/the_promise_of_the_promised_land.htm">The Promise of the Promised Land</a> The reference to the place God told Moses about reminds us of God's promises and the hope we have in His future plans for us.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_exodus_32.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Exodus 32</a> <a href="/q/do_angels_sin_more_than_humans.htm">Do angels commit more sins than humans?</a> <a href="/q/how_does_deut._9_13-21_align_with_ex._32.htm">Deuteronomy 9:13-21 - How does Moses's retelling of the golden calf incident here square with the details and timing found in Exodus 32?</a> <a href="/q/is_a_40-day_fast_physically_possible.htm">How is a 40-day fast (Matthew 4:2) scientifically or physically possible?</a> <a href="/q/does_proverbs_16_4_imply_god_created_evil.htm">Proverbs 16:4 states God made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for a day of disaster--doesn't this suggest a divine origin for evil, conflicting with the idea of a just and loving God?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/exodus/32.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(34) Lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken--i.e., continue their leader until Palestine is reached. (See <a href="/exodus/3-8.htm" title="And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good land and a large, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.">Exodus 3:8</a>; <a href="/exodus/3-17.htm" title="And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.">Exodus 3:17</a>; <a href="/context/exodus/6-4.htm" title="And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.">Exodus 6:4-8</a>, &c.)Mine Angel shall go before thee.--So far as the form of the expression goes, the promise is, as nearly as possible, a repetition of the original one, "Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared" (<a href="/exodus/23-20.htm" title="Behold, I send an Angel before you, to keep you in the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.">Exodus 23:20</a>). But the meaning of the promise is wholly changed, as we learn from the opening paragraph of the ensuing chapter (<a href="/context/exodus/33-1.htm" title="And the LORD said to Moses, Depart, and go up hence, you and the people which you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, To your seed will I give it:">Exodus 33:1-3</a>). The "angel" now promised as a guide is not to be God Himself ("I will not go up in the midst of thee "), but a creature, between whom and God the distance is immeasurable. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/exodus/32.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 34. - Lead the people unto the place, etc. This was a revocation of the sentence of death passed in verse 10. The people was to be spared, and Moses was to conduct them to Palestine. Mine Angel shall go before thee. Mine Angel - not I myself (compare <a href="/exodus/33-2.htm">Exodus 33:2, 3</a>). Another threatened punishment, which was revoked upon the repentance of the people (ib, 4, 6), and the earnest prayer of Moses (ib, 14-16). I will visit their sin upon them. Kalisch thinks that a plague was at once sent, and so understands verse 35. But most commentators regard the day of visitation as that on which it was declared that none of those who had quitted Egypt should enter Canaan (<a href="/numbers/14-35.htm">Numbers 14:35</a>), and regard that sentence as, in fact, provoked by the golden calf idolatry (ib, 22). <a href="/commentaries/exodus/32-34.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>Now וְעַתָּ֞ה (wə·‘at·tāh) Conjunctive waw | Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6258.htm">Strong's 6258: </a> At this time go, לֵ֣ךְ ׀ (lêḵ) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1980.htm">Strong's 1980: </a> To go, come, walk lead נְחֵ֣ה (nə·ḥêh) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5148.htm">Strong's 5148: </a> To guide, to transport the people הָעָ֗ם (hā·‘ām) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5971.htm">Strong's 5971: </a> A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock to אֶ֤ל (’el) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to the place I told דִּבַּ֙רְתִּי֙ (dib·bar·tî) Verb - Piel - Perfect - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1696.htm">Strong's 1696: </a> To arrange, to speak, to subdue you. לָ֔ךְ (lāḵ) Preposition | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> Behold, הִנֵּ֥ה (hin·nêh) Interjection <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2009.htm">Strong's 2009: </a> Lo! behold! My angel מַלְאָכִ֖י (mal·’ā·ḵî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4397.htm">Strong's 4397: </a> A messenger, of God, an angel shall go יֵלֵ֣ךְ (yê·lêḵ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1980.htm">Strong's 1980: </a> To go, come, walk before you. לְפָנֶ֑יךָ (lə·p̄ā·ne·ḵā) Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6440.htm">Strong's 6440: </a> The face But on the day וּבְי֣וֹם (ū·ḇə·yō·wm) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> A day I settle accounts, פָּקְדִ֔י (pā·qə·ḏî) Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6485.htm">Strong's 6485: </a> To visit, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit I will punish them וּפָקַדְתִּ֥י (ū·p̄ā·qaḏ·tî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6485.htm">Strong's 6485: </a> To visit, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit for their sin.” חַטָּאתָֽם׃ (ḥaṭ·ṭā·ṯām) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2403.htm">Strong's 2403: </a> An offence, its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, expiation, an offender <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/exodus/32-34.htm">Exodus 32:34 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/exodus/32-34.htm">Exodus 32:34 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/exodus/32-34.htm">Exodus 32:34 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/exodus/32-34.htm">Exodus 32:34 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/exodus/32-34.htm">Exodus 32:34 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/exodus/32-34.htm">Exodus 32:34 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/exodus/32-34.htm">Exodus 32:34 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/exodus/32-34.htm">Exodus 32:34 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/exodus/32-34.htm">Exodus 32:34 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/exodus/32-34.htm">Exodus 32:34 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/exodus/32-34.htm">OT Law: Exodus 32:34 Now go lead the people to (Exo. 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