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When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain ,
the people gathered themselves together to Aaron ,
and said to him , "
Come ,
make us gods ,
which shall go before us ;
for as for this Moses ,
the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt ,
we don '
t know what has become of him ."
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Aaron said to them , "
Take off the golden rings ,
which are in the ears of your wives ,
of your sons ,
and of your daughters ,
and bring them to me ."
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All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears ,
and brought them to Aaron .
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He received what they handed him ,
and fashioned it with an engraving tool ,
and made it a molten calf ;
and they said , "
These are your gods ,
Israel ,
which brought you up out of the land of Egypt ."
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When Aaron saw this ,
he built an altar before it ;
and Aaron made a proclamation ,
and said , "
Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh ."
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They rose up early on the next day ,
and offered burnt offerings ,
and brought peace offerings ;
and the people sat down to eat and to drink ,
and rose up to play .
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Yahweh spoke to Moses , "
Go ,
get down ;
for your people ,
who you brought up out of the land of Egypt ,
have corrupted themselves !
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They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them .
They have made themselves a molten calf ,
and have worshiped it ,
and have sacrificed to it ,
and said , '
These are your gods ,
Israel ,
which brought you up out of the land of Egypt .'"
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Yahweh said to Moses , "
I have seen these people ,
and behold ,
they are a stiff-necked people .
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Now therefore leave me alone ,
that my wrath may burn hot against them ,
and that I may consume them ;
and I will make of you a great nation ."
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Moses begged Yahweh his God ,
and said , "
Yahweh ,
why does your wrath burn hot against your people ,
that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand ?
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Why should the Egyptians speak ,
saying , '
He brought them forth for evil ,
to kill them in the mountains ,
and to consume them from the surface of the earth ?'
Turn from your fierce wrath ,
and repent of this evil against your people .
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Remember Abraham ,
Isaac ,
and Israel ,
your servants ,
to whom you swore by your own self ,
and said to them , '
I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky ,
and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed ,
and they shall inherit it forever .'"
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Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people .
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Moses turned ,
and went down from the mountain ,
with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand ;
tablets that were written on both their sides ;
on the one side and on the other they were written .
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The tablets were the work of God ,
and the writing was the writing of God ,
engraved on the tables .
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When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted ,
he said to Moses , "
There is the noise of war in the camp ."
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He said , "
It isn '
t the voice of those who shout for victory ,
neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome ;
but the noise of those who sing that I hear ."
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It happened ,
as soon as he came near to the camp ,
that he saw the calf and the dancing :
and Moses '
anger grew hot ,
and he threw the tablets out of his hands ,
and broke them beneath the mountain .
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He took the calf which they had made ,
and burnt it with fire ,
ground it to powder ,
and scattered it on the water ,
and made the children of Israel drink of it .
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Moses said to Aaron , "
What did these people do to you ,
that you have brought a great sin on them ?"
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Aaron said , "
Don '
t let the anger of my lord grow hot .
You know the people ,
that they are set on evil .
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For they said to me , '
Make us gods ,
which shall go before us ;
for as for this Moses ,
the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt ,
we don '
t know what has become of him .'
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I said to them , '
Whoever has any gold ,
let them take it off :'
so they gave it to me ;
and I threw it into the fire ,
and out came this calf ."
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When Moses saw that the people had broken loose , (
for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies ),
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then Moses stood in the gate of the camp ,
and said , "
Whoever is on Yahweh '
s side ,
come to me !"
All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him .
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He said to them , "
Thus says Yahweh ,
the God of Israel , '
Every man put his sword on his thigh ,
and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp ,
and every man kill his brother ,
and every man his companion ,
and every man his neighbor .'"
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The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses :
and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men .
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Moses said , "
Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh ,
yes ,
every man against his son ,
and against his brother ;
that he may bestow on you a blessing this day ."
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It happened on the next day ,
that Moses said to the people , "
You have sinned a great sin .
Now I will go up to Yahweh .
Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin ."
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Moses returned to Yahweh ,
and said , "
Oh ,
this people have sinned a great sin ,
and have made themselves gods of gold .
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Yet now ,
if you will ,
forgive their sin--and if not ,
please blot me out of your book which you have written ."
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Yahweh said to Moses , "
Whoever has sinned against me ,
him will I blot out of my book .