Exodus 32
1 The people, in the absence of Moses, cause Aaron to make a calf.
7 God informs Moses, who intercedes for Israel, and prevails.
15 Moses comes down with the tables.
19 He breaks them.
20 He destroys the calf.
22 Aaron's excuse for himself.
25 Moses causes the idolaters to be slain.
30 He prays for the people.
delayed <0954> [A.M. 2513. B.C. 1491. An. Ex. Is. 1. Ab. delayed.]
Get up ....................... land <06965 0776> [Up.]
make <06213> [make.]
<03212> [which shall.]
man <0376> [the man.]
know <03045> [we wot.]
<06696> [fashioned.]
engraving tool <02747> [a graving.]
calf <05695> [calf.]
gods <0430> [These.]
brought ... up <05927> [which brought.]
Aaron ........... Aaron <0175> [Aaron.]
proclamation <07121> [made proclamation.]
feast <02282> [a feast.]
offered <05927> [offered.]
sat .... eat <03427 0398> [sat down.]
No doubt at this feast they sacrificed after the manner of the Egyptians.
<03212> [Go.]
people <05971> [thy people.]
corruptly <07843> [corrupted.]
They ..... aside <05493> [have turned.]
commanded <06680> [which I.]
gods <0430> [These be.]
seen <07200> [I have seen.]
stiff-necked <07186> [a stiff-necked.]
leave <03240> [let me alone.]
anger <0639> [my wrath.]
make <06213> [and I will.]
sought <02470> [besought.]
Lord ... God ..... Lord <03068 0430> [the Lord his God. Heb. the face of the Lord. why doth.]
out <03318> [which thou.]
<04714> [should.]
Turn .... burning <07725 02740> [Turn from.]
relent <05162> [repent.]
Remember <02142> [Remember.]
swore <07650> [to whom.]
multiply <07235> [I will multiply.]
turned <06437> [turned.]
testimony <05715> [the testimony.]
written ....... written <03789> [written.]
Joshua had waited patiently during all the forty days, in the place where Moses had left him--below the summit of the mount, at a distance from the people, and out of the way of temptation.
Joshua <03091> [Joshua.]
shouted <07452> [they shouted.]
noise ............... sound <06963> [There is a noise.]
overcome <02476> [being overcome. Heb. weakness. but the.]
saw <07200> [he saw.]
dancing <04246> [the dancing.]
angry <0639> [anger.]
broke ....... bottom <07665 08478> [brake them.]
took ... calf <05695 03947> [took the calf.]
How truly contemptible must the object of their idolatry appear, when they were obliged to drink their god, reduced to powder, and strewed on the water! Some have asked, how gold, the most ductile and ponderous of all metals, could have been stamped into dust, and strewed on the water. In De 9:21, this is fully explained. I took, says Moses, your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire; that is, melted it down, probably into ingots or gross plates, and stamped it, beat it into thin lamin‘, something like our gold leaf, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust, which might be very easily done by the action of the hands, when beat into thin plates or leaves as the original words {ekkoth,} and {dak,} imply.
Israelites <01121> [made the.]
know <03045> [knowest.]
evil <07451> [that they are.]
gave <05414> [So they.]
running <06544> [naked.]
The term naked may mean either that they were unarmed and defenceless, or ashamed from the consciousness of guilt.
Aaron <0175> [Aaron.]
derision <08103> [shame.]
get <06965> [their enemies. Heb. those that rose up against them.]
Lord <03068> [Who is on.]
man ..................... each ... kill ..... friend <0376 02026> [slay every man.]
Levites <01121> [children.]
died <05307> [there fell.]
Or, another reading of this verse is: And Moses said, Consecrate yourselves to-day to the Lord; because every man hath been against his son and against his brother, etc.
Moses <04872> [Moses.]
consecrated <04390> [Consecrate. Heb. fill your hands.]
committed <02398> [Ye have.]
perhaps <0194> [peradventure.]
atonement <03722> [an atonement.]
returned <07725> [returned.]
committed <02398> [sinned.]
made <06213> [made.]
forgive <05375> [if thou.]
wipe ... out .... book <04229 05612> [blot me.]
Allusion may be made to the registry of births, in which those born of a particular tribe were entered in the list of their respective families under that tribe. This was the book of life; and when any died, his name might be considered as blotted out of this list. But as Moses addressed the Lord, he undoubtedly referred, by faith, to the book of God's remembrance.
sinned <02398> [sinned.]
book <05612> [my book.]
angel <04397> [mine Angel.]
day <03117> [the day.]
