18AND HE GAVE TO MOSES WHEN FINISHED HE TO SPEAK WITH HIM ON [THE] MOUNTAIN OF SINAI [THE] TWO [THE] TABLETS OF THE TESTIMONY TABLETS OF STONE WRITTEN BY [THE] FINGER OF GOD Moses Receives the Tablets 18When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
1AND IT SAW THE PEOPLE THAT HE DELAYED MOSES TO COME DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN AND IT ASSEMBLED THE PEOPLE TO AARON AND THEY SAID TO HIM ARISE MAKE FOR <THE> US GODS WHICH THEY WILL GO <TO> BEFORE US FOR THIS MOSES THE MAN WHO HE BROUGHT UP US FROM [THE] LAND OF EGYPT NOT WE KNOW WHAT? HAS IT HAPPENED TO <THE> HIM The Golden Calf (Deuteronomy 9:7–29; Acts 7:39–43) 1Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!”*NoteCloseCited in Acts 7:40
2AND HE SAID TO THEM AARON TEAR OFF [THE] RINGS OF <THE> GOLD WHICH [ARE] ON [THE] EARS OF WIVES YOUR SONS YOUR AND DAUGHTERS YOUR AND BRING [THEM] TO ME 2So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.”
3AND THEY TORE OFF FROM THEMSELVES ALL THE PEOPLE <OBJ.> [THE] RINGS OF <THE> GOLD WHICH [WERE] ON EARS THEIR AND THEY BROUGHT [THEM] TO AARON 3Then all the people took off their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.
4AND HE TOOK [THEM] FROM HAND THEIR AND HE FASHIONED <OBJ.> IT WITH <THE> TOOL AND HE MADE IT A CALF OF MOLTEN METAL AND THEY SAID THESE [ARE] GODS YOUR O ISRAEL WHO THEY BROUGHT UP YOU FROM [THE] LAND OF EGYPT 4He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
5AND HE SAW AARON AND HE BUILT AN ALTAR <TO> BEFORE IT AND HE CALLED AARON AND HE SAID A FESTIVAL OF YAHWEH [WILL BE] TOMORROW 5When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before the calf and proclaimed: “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.”
6AND THEY ROSE EARLY FROM [THE] NEXT DAY AND THEY OFFERED UP BURNT OFFERINGS AND THEY BROUGHT NEAR PEACE OFFERINGS AND IT SAT DOWN THE PEOPLE TO EAT AND TO DRINK AND THEY AROSE TO PLAY 6So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.*NoteCloseOr to play; cited in 1 Corinthians 10:7
7AND HE SPOKE YAHWEH TO MOSES GO GO DOWN FOR IT HAS BEHAVED CORRUPTLY PEOPLE YOUR WHICH YOU BROUGHT UP FROM [THE] LAND OF EGYPT 7Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.
8THEY HAVE TURNED ASIDE QUICKLY FROM THE WAY WHICH I COMMANDED THEM THEY HAVE MADE FOR <THE> THEMSELVES A CALF OF MOLTEN METAL AND THEY HAVE BOWED DOWN TO <THE> IT AND THEY HAVE SACRIFICED TO <THE> IT AND THEY HAVE SAID THESE [ARE] GODS YOUR O ISRAEL WHO THEY BROUGHT UP YOU FROM [THE] LAND OF EGYPT 8How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”
9AND HE SAID YAHWEH TO MOSES I HAVE SEEN <OBJ.> THE PEOPLE <THE> THIS AND THERE! [IS] A PEOPLE STIFF OF NECK IT 9The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
10AND THEREFORE LEAVE ALONE! <TO> <THE> ME SO MAY IT BURN ANGER MY ON <THE> THEM SO I MAY MAKE AN END OF THEM AND I MAY MAKE <OBJ.> YOU INTO A NATION GREAT 10Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
11AND HE ENTREATED MOSES <OBJ.> [THE] FACE OF YAHWEH GOD HIS AND HE SAID <TO> WHY? O YAHWEH DOES IT BURN ANGER YOUR ON PEOPLE YOUR WHICH YOU BROUGHT OUT FROM [THE] LAND OF EGYPT WITH POWER GREAT AND BY A HAND STRONG 11But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God, saying, “O LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?
12<TO> WHY? WILL THEY SAY EGYPT <TO> SAYING WITH EVIL HE BROUGHT OUT THEM TO KILL <OBJ.> THEM IN THE MOUNTAINS AND TO MAKE AN END OF THEM FROM ON [THE] SURFACE OF THE GROUND TURN FROM [THE] BURNING OF ANGER YOUR AND RELENT ON THE HARM TO PEOPLE YOUR 12Why should the Egyptians declare, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.
13REMEMBER <TO> ABRAHAM <TO> ISAAC AND <TO> ISRAEL SERVANTS YOUR WHOM YOU SWORE TO <THE> THEM BY <THE> YOURSELF AND YOU SAID TO THEM I WILL INCREASE <OBJ.> OFFSPRING YOUR LIKE [THE] STARS OF THE HEAVENS AND ALL THE LAND <THE> THIS WHICH I HAVE PROMISED I WILL GIVE TO OFFSPRING YOUR AND THEY WILL POSSESS [IT] FOR EVER 13Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”
14AND HE RELENTED YAHWEH ON THE HARM WHICH HE HAD SPOKEN TO DO TO PEOPLE HIS 14So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.
15AND HE TURNED AND HE WENT DOWN MOSES FROM THE MOUNTAIN AND [THE] TWO [THE] TABLETS OF THE TESTIMONY [WERE] IN HAND HIS TABLETS WRITTEN FROM [THE] TWO SIDES THEIR FROM THIS AND FROM THIS THEY [WERE] WRITTEN 15Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.
16AND THE TABLETS [WERE] [THE] WORK OF GOD THEY AND THE WRITING [WAS] [THE] WRITING OF GOD IT ENGRAVED ON THE TABLETS 16The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
17AND HE HEARD JOSHUA <OBJ.> [THE] SOUND OF THE PEOPLE IN SHOUTING ITS AND HE SAID TO MOSES A SOUND OF BATTLE [IS] IN THE CAMP 17When Joshua heard the sound of the people shouting, he said to Moses, “The sound of war is in the camp.”
18AND HE SAID THERE NOT [IS] A SOUND OF SINGING OF STRENGTH AND THERE NOT [IS] A SOUND OF SINGING OF WEAKNESS A SOUND OF SINGING I [AM] HEARING 18But Moses replied: “It is neither the cry of victory nor the cry of defeat; I hear the sound of singing!”
19AND IT WAS JUST WHEN HE DREW NEAR TO THE CAMP AND HE SAW <OBJ.> THE CALF AND DANCING AND IT BURNED [THE] ANGER OF MOSES AND HE THREW DOWN FROM HANDS HIS <OBJ.> THE TABLETS AND HE BROKE IN PIECES <OBJ.> THEM UNDER THE MOUNTAIN 19As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.
20AND HE TOOK <OBJ.> THE CALF WHICH THEY HAD MADE AND HE BURNED [IT] WITH <THE> FIRE AND HE GROUND [IT] UNTIL THAT IT WAS FINE AND HE SCATTERED [IT] ON [THE] SURFACE OF THE WATER AND HE MADE DRINK [IT] <OBJ.> [THE] PEOPLE OF ISRAEL 20Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.
21AND HE SAID MOSES TO AARON WHAT? DID IT DO TO <THE> YOU THE PEOPLE <THE> THIS THAT YOU HAVE BROUGHT ON IT A SIN GREAT 21“What did this people do to you,” Moses asked Aaron, “that you have led them into so great a sin?”
22AND HE SAID AARON MAY NOT IT BURN [THE] ANGER OF LORD MY YOU YOU KNOW <OBJ.> THE PEOPLE THAT [IS] ON EVIL IT 22“Do not be enraged, my lord,” Aaron replied. “You yourself know that the people are intent on evil.
23AND THEY SAID TO <THE> ME MAKE FOR <THE> US GODS WHICH THEY WILL GO <TO> BEFORE US FOR THIS MOSES THE MAN WHO HE BROUGHT UP US FROM [THE] LAND OF EGYPT NOT WE KNOW WHAT? HAS IT HAPPENED TO <THE> HIM 23They told me, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!’
24AND I SAID TO <THE> THEM [BELONGS] TO WHOM? GOLD TEAR [IT] OFF FROM YOURSELVES AND THEY GAVE [IT] TO <THE> ME AND I THREW IT IN THE FIRE AND IT CAME OUT THE CALF <THE> THIS 24So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, let him take it off,’ and they gave it to me. And when I threw it into the fire, out came this calf!”
25AND HE SAW MOSES <OBJ.> THE PEOPLE FOR [WAS] RUNNING WILD IT FOR HAD LET [IT] RUN WILD HE AARON FOR DERISION AMONG [THOSE WHO] RISE AGAINST THEM 25Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them run wild and become a laughingstock*NoteCloseOr and become an object of derision to their enemies.
26AND HE STOOD MOSES AT [THE] GATE OF THE CAMP AND HE SAID WHO? [BELONGS] TO YAHWEH TO ME AND THEY GATHERED THEMSELVES TO HIM ALL [THE] DESCENDANTS OF LEVI 26So Moses stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come to me.” And all the Levites gathered around him.
27AND HE SAID TO <THE> THEM THUS HE SAYS YAHWEH [THE] GOD OF ISRAEL PUT EVERYONE SWORD HIS ON THIGH HIS PASS AND RETURN FROM GATE TO GATE IN THE CAMP AND KILL EVERYONE <OBJ.> BROTHER HIS AND EVERYONE <OBJ.> FRIEND HIS AND EVERYONE <OBJ.> NEIGHBOR HIS 27He told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each of you men is to fasten his sword to his side, go back and forth through the camp from gate to gate, and slay his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’”
28AND THEY DID [THE] DESCENDANTS OF LEVI ACCORDING TO [THE] WORD OF MOSES AND IT FELL OF THE PEOPLE ON THE DAY <THE> THAT ABOUT THREE THOUSAND<S> PERSON[S] 28The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people fell dead.
29AND HE SAID MOSES FILL HAND YOUR THIS DAY TO YAHWEH FOR EVERYONE [WAS] ON SON HIS AND ON BROTHER HIS AND TO PUT ON <THE> YOURSELVES THIS DAY A BLESSING 29Afterward, Moses said, “Today you have been ordained*NoteCloseOr have ordained yourselves for service to the LORD, since each man went against his son and his brother; so the LORD has bestowed a blessing on you this day.”
30AND IT WAS FROM [THE] NEXT DAY AND HE SAID MOSES TO THE PEOPLE YOU YOU HAVE SINNED A SIN GREAT AND NOW I WILL GO UP TO YAHWEH PERHAPS I WILL ATONE FOR SIN YOUR 30The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”
31AND HE RETURNED MOSES TO YAHWEH AND HE SAID I BEG YOU IT HAS SINNED THE PEOPLE <THE> THIS A SIN GREAT AND THEY HAVE MADE FOR <THE> THEMSELVES GODS OF GOLD 31So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made gods of gold for themselves.
32AND THEREFORE IF YOU WILL FORGIVE SIN THEIR AND IF NOT WIPE OUT ME PLEASE FROM BOOK YOUR WHICH YOU HAVE WRITTEN 32Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”
33AND HE SAID YAHWEH TO MOSES WHO? [IS [THE] ONE] WHO HE HAS SINNED TO <THE> ME I WILL WIPE OUT HIM FROM BOOK MY 33The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book.
34AND NOW GO LEAD <OBJ.> THE PEOPLE TO WHERE I HAVE SPOKEN TO <THE> YOU THERE! ANGEL MY HE WILL GO <TO> BEFORE YOU AND ON [THE] DAY VISIT I AND I WILL VISIT ON THEM SIN THEIR 34Now 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.”
35AND HE STRUCK YAHWEH <OBJ.> THE PEOPLE ON THAT THEY HAD MADE <OBJ.> THE CALF WHICH HE HAD MADE AARON 35And the LORD sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had made.