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Exodus 32 📜 📕 ↷
Golden Calf
1 AND the people seeing that Moyses made tarriance ere he came down from the mount, being assembled against Aaron, they said: Arise, make us gods, that may go before us: for what hath chanced to this Moyses the man that brought us out of the Land of AEgypt, we know not.📜💬📚
2 And Aaron said to them: Take the golden earlets from the ears of your wives, and sons, and daughters, & bring them to me.📜💬📚
3 And the people did that he had commanded, bringing the earlets to Aaron.📜💬📚
4 Which when he had received, he formed them by founder's work, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are thy gods Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of AEgypt.📜💬📚
5 Which when Aaron had seen, he builded an altar before it, and by a crier's voice proclaimed saying: Tomorrow is the solemnity of the Lord.📜💬📚
6 And rising in the morning, they offered holocausts, and pacific hosts, and the people sat down to eat, and to drink, and they rose up to play.📜💬📚
7 And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying: Go, get thee down: thy people, which thou hast brought out of the Land of AEgypt, hath sinned.📜💬📚
8 They have quickly revolted from the way that thou didst shew them: and they have made to themselves a molten calf, and have adored, and immolating hosts unto it, have said: These are thy gods Israel, that have brought thee out of the Land of AEgypt.📜💬📚
9 And again our Lord said to Moyses: I see that this people is stiff-necked:📜💬📚
10 suffer me, that my fury may be angry against them, & that I may destroy them, and I will make thee into a great nation.📜💬📚
11 But Moyses besought the Lord his God, saying: Why Lord, is thy fury angry against thy people, whom thou hast brought forth of the Land of AEgypt, in great power, and in a strong hand?📜💬📚
12 Let not the AEgyptians say I beseech thee: He hath craftily brought them forth, that he might kill them in the mountains, and destroy them from the earth: let thine anger cease, and be pacified upon the wickedness of thy people.📜💬📚
13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, saying: I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven: and this whole land, whereof I have spoken, I will give to your seed, & you shall possess it always.📜💬📚
14 And our Lord was pacified from doing the evil which he had spoken against his people.📜💬📚
15 And Moyses returned from the mount, carrying the two tables of testimony in his hand, written on both sides,📜💬📚
16 and made by the work of God: the writing also of God was graven in the tables.📜💬📚
17 And Josue hearing the tumult of the people crying out, said to Moyses: The noise of battail is heard in the camp.📜💬📚
18 Who answered: It is not the cry of men encouraging of fight, nor the shout of men compelling to fly: but I do hear the voice of singers.📜💬📚
Moses Breaks the Tablets
19 And when he approached to the camp, he saw the calf, and the dances: and being very wrath, he threw the tables out of his hand, and brake them at the foot of the mount.📜💬📚
20 And catching the calf which they had made, he burnt it, & beat it into powder, which he strawed into water, and gave thereof drink to the children of Israel.📜💬📚
21 And he said to Aaron: What hath this people done to thee, that thou shouldest bring upon them an heinous sin?📜💬📚
22 To whom he answered: Let not my Lord be offended for thou knowest this people, that it is prone to evil:📜💬📚
23 they said to me: Make us gods, that may go before us: for unto this same Moyses, that brought us forth out of the Land of AEgypt, we know not what is chanced.📜💬📚
24 To whom I said: Which of you hath gold? They took, & brought to me: & I cast it into the fire, and this calf came forth.📜💬📚
25 Moyses therefore seeing the people that they were made naked (for Aaron had spoiled them for the ignominy of filth, & had set them naked among their enemies).📜💬📚
26 & standing in the gate of the camp, he said: If any man be our Lord's, let him join to me, And there gathered unto him all the sons of Levi:📜💬📚
27 to whom he said: This saith the Lord God of Israel: Put every man his sword upon his thigh: go, and return from gate to gate through the midst of the camp, and every man kill his brother, and friend, and neighbour.📜💬📚
28 And the sons of Levi did according to the saying of Moyses, and there were slain in that day about three and twenty thousand men.📜💬📚
29 And Moyses said: You have consecrated your hands this day to our Lord, every man in his son & in his brother, that blessing may be given to you.📜💬📚
30 And when the next day was come, Moyses spake to the people: You have sinned a very great sin: I will go up to our Lord, if by any means I may be able to entreat him for your sinful fact.📜💬📚
31 And returning to our Lord, he said: I beseech thee, this people hath sinned a heinous sin, and they have made to themselves gods of gold; either forgive them this trespass,📜💬📚
32 or if thou do not, strike me out of the book that thou hast written.📜💬📚
33 To whom our Lord answered: He that hath sinned to me, him will I strike out of my book:📜💬📚
34 but go thou, and lead this people wither I have told thee: mine Angel shall go before thee. And I in the day of revenge will visit this sin also of theirs.📜💬📚
35 Our Lord therefore smote the people for the fault concerning the calf, which Aaron had made.📜💬📚
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