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Exodus 32 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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The Gold Calf
The Golden Calf
(Deut. 9:6–29 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:1 - Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:2 - And Aaron said to them, “Break off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:3 - So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:4 - And he received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf. Then they said, “This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:5 - So when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow is a feast to the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:6 - Then they rose early on the next day, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:7 - And the LORD said to Moses, “Go, get down! For your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:8 - “They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:9 - And the LORD said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people!

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:10 - “Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:11 - Then Moses pleaded with the LORD his God, and said: “LORD, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:12 - “Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, ‘He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this harm to Your people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:13 - “Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven; and all this land that I have spoken of I give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:14 - So the LORD relented from the harm which He said He would do to His people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:15 - 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 sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:16 - Now the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God engraved on the tablets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:17 - And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a noise of war in the camp.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:18 - But he said:

“It is not the noise of the shout of victory,
Nor the noise of the cry of defeat,
But the sound of singing I hear.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:19 - So it was, as soon as he came near the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing. So Moses’ anger became hot, and he cast the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:20 - Then he took the calf which they had made, burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder; and he scattered it on the water and made the children of Israel drink it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:21 - And Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:22 - So Aaron said, “Do not let the anger of my lord become hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:23 - “For they said to me, ‘Make us gods that shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:24 - “And I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them break it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I cast it into the fire, and this calf came out.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:25 - Now when Moses saw that the people were unrestrained (for Aaron had not restrained them, to their shame among their enemies),

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:26 - then Moses stood in the entrance of the camp, and said, “Whoever is on the LORD’s side—come to me!” And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:27 - And he said to them, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘Let every man put his sword on his side, and go in and out from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and let every man kill his brother, every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:28 - So the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And about three thousand men of the people fell that day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:29 - Then Moses said, “Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD, that He may bestow on you a blessing this day, for every man has opposed his son and his brother.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:30 - Now it came to pass on the next day that Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. So now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:31 - Then Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Oh, these people have committed a great sin, and have made for themselves a god of gold!

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:32 - “Yet now, if You will forgive their sin—but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:33 - And the LORD said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:34 - “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.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:35 - So the LORD plagued the people because of what they did with the calf which Aaron made.
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Genesis 13:15 and 22:17
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