Exodus 32:6

Sin Temptation Praise and worship

⁴ He 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!”

⁵ When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before the calf and proclaimed: “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.”

So 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.

⁷ Then 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.

⁸ How 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.’”

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.

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BSB: So 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.
KJV: And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
WEB: 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.
ASV: And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
DARBY: And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered up burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to sport.
BLB: And they rose early on the next day, and they offered burnt offerings, and they brought near peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and they rose up to play.

ÅB: Dagen etter sto de tidlig opp og ofret brennoffer og bar fram takkoffer; og folket satte seg ned for å spise og drikke og sto opp for å leke.
OTB: Så sto folket opp tidlig neste dag, ofret brennoffer og bar frem fredsoffer. Deretter satte de seg ned for å spise og drikke og reiste seg for å drive med festligheter.
B1930: Dagen efter stod de tidlig op og ofret brennoffer og bar frem takkoffer; og folket satte sig ned for å ete og drikke og stod op for å leke.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

1 Corinthians 10:7
Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.”
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Numbers 25:2
who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods.
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Acts 7:41–42
At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.
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Exodus 32:17–19
When Joshua heard the sound of the people shouting, he said to Moses, “The sound of war is in the camp.”
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Amos 8:10
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.
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Amos 2:8
They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.
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Revelation 11:10
And those who dwell on the earth will gloat over them, and will celebrate and send one another gifts, because these two prophets had tormented them.
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Exodus 24:4–5
And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Early the next morning he got up and built an altar at the base of the mountain, along with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
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