Exodus 32 (NET)

Exodus 32:1¹When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Get up, make us gods that will go before us. As for this fellow Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 7:40Deut 9:92 Pet 3:4Exod 24:18Matt 24:48Deut 9:11-12Acts 17:29Deut 4:15-18Exod 13:21Exod 14:11

Exodus 32:2²So Aaron said to them, “Break off the gold earrings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 12:35-36Judg 8:24-27Ezek 16:11-12Ezek 16:17Hos 2:8Exod 35:22Gen 24:47Gen 24:22

Exodus 32:3³So all the people broke off the gold earrings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 40:19-20Isa 46:6Jer 10:9Judg 17:3-4

Exodus 32:4⁴He accepted the gold from them, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molten calf. Then they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 9:181 Kgs 12:28Acts 7:41Deut 9:16Exod 32:8Isa 44:9-102 Kgs 10:29Hos 13:2Hos 8:4-5Rom 1:21-23

Exodus 32:5⁵When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow will be a feast to the Lord.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 10:20Lev 23:2Lev 23:371 Cor 5:81 Kgs 12:32-331 Kgs 21:91 Sam 14:352 Chr 30:52 Kgs 16:11Exod 12:14

Exodus 32:6⁶So they got up early on the next day and offered up burnt offerings and brought peace offerings, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:7Num 25:2Acts 7:41-42Exod 32:17-19Amos 2:8Amos 8:10Exod 24:4-5Judg 16:23-25Rev 11:10

Exodus 32:7⁷The Lord spoke to Moses, “Go quickly, descend, because your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 32:11Hos 9:9Deut 9:12Exod 19:24Gen 6:11-12Judg 2:19Dan 9:24Deut 32:5Deut 4:16Exod 32:1

Exodus 32:8⁸They have quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them—they have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 12:28Exod 20:23Exod 20:3-4Deut 9:16Exod 22:20Judg 2:17Exod 32:4

Exodus 32:9⁹Then the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 7:51Isa 48:4Deut 9:13Exod 33:3Exod 33:5Exod 34:92 Chr 30:8Deut 31:27Deut 9:6Deut 10:16

Exodus 32:10¹⁰So now, leave me alone so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 9:14Num 14:12Deut 9:19Exod 22:24Num 16:45-48Num 14:19-20Num 16:22Exod 32:11Exod 32:19Jer 14:11

Exodus 32:11¹¹But Moses sought the favor of the Lord his God and said, “O Lord, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 9:18-20Deut 9:26-29Ps 106:23Isa 63:17Jer 12:1-2Num 11:11Num 16:22Ps 74:1-2

Exodus 32:12¹²Why should the Egyptians say, ‘For evil he led them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger, and relent of this evil against your people.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 14:13-16Deut 9:28Exod 32:14Josh 7:9Amos 7:3Amos 7:6Deut 13:17Deut 32:26-27Deut 32:36Ezek 20:14

Exodus 32:13¹³Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them, ‘I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about I will give to your descendants, and they will inherit it forever.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 6:13Gen 12:7Gen 22:16Gen 15:18Gen 15:5Gen 15:7Gen 35:11-12Deut 7:8Gen 48:16Lev 26:42

Exodus 32:14¹⁴Then the Lord relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jonah 3:10Jer 26:13Ps 106:451 Chr 21:152 Sam 24:16Jer 18:8Jonah 4:2Jer 26:19Joel 2:13Deut 32:26

Exodus 32:15¹⁵Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hands. The tablets were written on both sides—they were written on the front and on the back.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 9:15Deut 5:22Exod 16:34Exod 24:18Exod 31:18Exod 40:20Ps 19:7Rev 5:1

Exodus 32:16¹⁶Now the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 31:18Heb 8:102 Cor 3:3Deut 10:1Deut 9:15Deut 9:9-11Exod 34:1Exod 34:42 Cor 3:7

Exodus 32:17¹⁷When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “It is the sound of war in the camp!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 24:13Exod 17:91 Sam 17:201 Sam 17:521 Sam 4:5-6Amos 1:14Amos 2:2Exod 32:18Ezra 3:11-13Jer 51:14

Exodus 32:18¹⁸Moses said, “It is not the sound of those who shout for victory, nor is it the sound of those who cry because they are overcome, but the sound of singing I hear.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 5:23Dan 5:4Exod 15:1-18

Exodus 32:19¹⁹When he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became extremely angry. He threw the tablets from his hands and broke them to pieces at the bottom of the mountain.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 9:16-172 Sam 6:14Deut 27:26Eph 4:26Exod 15:20Exod 32:11Exod 32:4-6Jer 31:32Lam 5:15Mark 10:14

Exodus 32:20²⁰He took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, poured it out on the water, and made the Israelites drink it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 9:212 Kgs 23:152 Kgs 23:6Deut 7:25Deut 7:5Prov 1:31Prov 14:14

Exodus 32:21²¹Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, that you have brought on them so great a sin?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 20:9Josh 7:19-261 Kgs 14:161 Kgs 21:221 Sam 26:192 Kgs 21:9-11Deut 13:6-8Gen 26:10

Exodus 32:22²²Aaron said, “Do not let your anger burn hot, my lord; you know these people, that they tend to evil.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 9:241 Sam 15:24Exod 14:11Exod 15:24Exod 16:20Prov 4:16Ps 36:4Deut 31:27Deut 9:7Exod 16:2-4

Exodus 32:23²³They said to me, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this fellow Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 32:1-4Exod 32:8

Exodus 32:24²⁴So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, break it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 32:4Gen 3:12-13Luke 10:29Rom 3:10

Exodus 32:25²⁵Moses saw that the people were running wild, for Aaron had let them get completely out of control, causing derision from their enemies.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 47:3Mic 1:11Rev 16:152 Chr 28:19Dan 12:2Deut 9:20Exod 33:4-6Ezek 16:63Gen 3:10Hos 2:3

Exodus 32:26²⁶So Moses stood at the entrance of the camp and said, “Whoever is for the Lord, come to me.” All the Levites gathered around him,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 9:32Matt 12:302 Sam 20:11Josh 5:13

Exodus 32:27²⁷and he said to them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said ‘Each man fasten his sword on his side, and go back and forth from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and each one kill his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 25:5Luke 14:26Deut 33:8-92 Cor 5:16Exod 32:26Exod 32:29Num 25:7-12

Exodus 32:28²⁸The Levites did what Moses ordered, and that day about 3,000 men of the people died.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 33:91 Cor 10:8Heb 2:2-3Mal 2:4-6Num 16:32-35Num 16:41

Exodus 32:29²⁹Moses said, “You have been consecrated today for the Lord, for each of you was against his son or against his brother, so he has given a blessing to you today.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 25:11-13Matt 10:37Zech 13:3Deut 13:6-11Prov 21:31 Sam 15:18-22Deut 33:9-10Joel 2:12-14

Exodus 32:30³⁰The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a very serious sin, but now I will go up to the Lord —perhaps I can make atonement on behalf of your sin.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 12:20Num 25:131 Sam 12:232 Kgs 17:212 Sam 16:12Amos 5:15Exod 32:31-32Jonah 3:9Num 16:471 Sam 2:17

Exodus 32:31³¹So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Alas, this people has committed a very serious sin, and they have made for themselves gods of gold.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 20:23Dan 9:11Dan 9:8Exod 32:30Dan 9:5Deut 9:18-19Exod 20:4Exod 34:28Ezra 9:15Ezra 9:6-7

Exodus 32:32³²But now, if you will forgive their sin…, but if not, wipe me out from your book that you have written.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 69:28Rom 9:3Phil 4:3Rev 21:27Dan 12:1Rev 3:5Ps 139:16Ps 56:8Deut 25:19Deut 29:20

Exodus 32:33³³The Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me—that person I will wipe out of my book.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 29:20Ezek 18:4Lev 23:30Ps 69:28Rev 20:12Ps 9:5Phil 4:3Ps 109:13-14Rev 13:8

Exodus 32:34³⁴So 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.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 32:35Exod 23:20Exod 3:17Exod 33:14-15Exod 33:2Matt 23:35Amos 3:14Exod 20:5Isa 63:9Jer 5:29

Exodus 32:35³⁵And the Lord sent a plague on the people because they had made the calf —the one Aaron made.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 12:9-10Acts 1:18Acts 7:41Exod 32:25Exod 32:4Matt 27:3-7