Exodus 32:33
31 So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made gods of gold for themselves.
32 Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”
The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book.
34 Now 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.”
35 And the LORD sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had made.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book.
- KJV
- And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
- WEB
- The LORD said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot him out of my book.
- ASV
- And Jehovah said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
- DARBY
- And Jehovah said to Moses, Whoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
- BLB
- And YHWH said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out from My book.
- ÅB
- Da sa Herren til Moses: Hver den som har syndet mot meg, ham vil jeg slette ut av min bok.
- OTB
- Herren svarte Moses: «Den som har syndet mot meg, vil jeg fjerne fra min bok.
- B1930
- Da sa Herren til Moses: Hver den som har syndet mot mig, ham vil jeg slette ut av min bok.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 18:4
Behold, every soul belongs to Me; both father and son are Mine. The soul who sins is the one who will die.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 29:20
The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
Read in contextRevelation 20:12
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.
Read in contextPsalms 69:28
May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.
Read in contextLeviticus 23:30
I will destroy from among his people anyone who does any work on this day.
Read in contextPsalms 9:5
You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; You have erased their name forever and ever.
Read in contextPhilippians 4:3
Yes, and I ask you, my true yokefellow, to help these women who have labored with me for the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.
Read in contextRevelation 13:8
And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain.
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