Exodus 32:15-29
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.]
