Exodus 32:1--34:35
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.]
<03212> [Depart.]
up ........... up <05927> [thou hast.]
land ...... land <0776> [the land.]
Moses ................. land ...... land ....... Abraham .............. descendants <04872 0776 085 02233> [Unto.]
angel <04397> [an angel.]
Canaanite <03669> [the Canaanite.]
land <0776> [a land.]
go up <05927> [for I.]
stiff-necked <07186> [stiff-necked.]
destroy <03615> [lest I.]
mourned <056> [they mourned.]
one <0376> [and no.]
stiff-necked <07186> [Ye are.]
moment <07281 0259> [in a moment.]
off <03381> [put off.]
know <03045> [I may.]
tent .................... tent ............. tent <0168> [the tabernacle.]
{Eth haohel,} the Tent, not {eth hammishcan,} the Tabernacle, for this was not erected; but probably the tent of Moses, which was before in the midst of the camp, and to which the people came for judgment; and where, no doubt, God frequently met his servant. This situation, as well as the superior elegance, of a chief's tent, was one mode by which he was honoured.
distance <07368> [afar off.]
tent .................... tent ... meeting ........... tent ... meeting <0168 04150> [the Tabernacle of.]
seeking <01245> [sought.]
out <03318> [went out.]
stand <05324> [and stood.]
cloud <06051> [cloudy.]
speak <01696> [talked.]
worship <07812> [worshipped.]
speak ........... speaks <01696> [spake.]
friend <07453> [his friend.]
servant <08334> [his servant.]
See <07200> [See.]
know ............ know <03045> [I know.]
found .................... find <04672> [if.]
show ........ know <03045> [shew.]
found ...... show ........ know ........ find <03045 04672> [that I.]
see <07200> [consider.]
presence <06440> [My presence.]
rest <05117> [rest.]
<03212> [in that.]
distinguished <06395> [separated.]
do <06213> [I will do.]
requested ..... found <01696 04672> [thou hast.]
goodness <02898> [all my goodness.]
proclaim <07121> [proclaim.]
gracious ....... gracious <02603> [I will be.]
cannot see ........ see <03201 07200> [Thou canst not.]
This is well explained by Rabbi Jehudah, in Sepher Cosri, (P. iv. 3.) "Of that divine glory mentioned in the Scripture, there is one degree which the eyes of the prophets were able to explore; another which all the Israelites saw, as the cloud and consuming fire; the third is so bright, and so dazzling, that no mortal is able to comprehend it; but should anyone venture to look on it, his whole frame would be dissolved." In such inconceivable splendour is the Divine Majesty revealed to the inhabitants of the celestial world, where he is said to "dwell in the light which no man can approach unto." (1 Ti 6:16.) By the "face of God," therefore, we are to understand that light inaccessible before which angels may stand, but which would be so insufferable to mortal eyes, that no man could see it and live.
place ...... station <04725 05324> [place by.]
cleft <05366> [in a clift.]
cover you with ... hand <05526 03709> [cover thee.]
The rock on which Moses stood, and in the clift of which he was sheltered, was doubtless an emblem of Christ; in whose person, character, and salvation alone, sinners may by faith see the glory of God, and live; for there it appears in softened splendour; as the sun, when his brightness is diminished by a mist, is beheld more distinctly by the human eye.--Scott
see .......... seen <07200> [thou shalt.]
Cut <06458> [Hew.]
write <03789> [I will.]
words <01697> [the words.]
smashed <07665> [which.]
top <07218> [in the top.]
descended <03381> [descended.]
name <08034> [the name.]
passed <05674> [passed.]
proclaimed <07121> [proclaimed.]
Lord ......... Lord ... Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
compassionate <07349> [merciful.]
abounding <07227> [abundant.]
faithfulness <0571> [truth.]
keeping <05341> [Keeping.]
forgiving <05375> [forgiving.]
means ..... unpunished <05352> [that will by no means clear the guilty.]
The Hebrew {nakkeh lo yenakkeh,} has been rendered "Acquitting him who is not innocent." Nothing can more strongly express the goodness of God to frail mortals than this declaration, "which has been misunderstood and misinterpreted by all our translators."
responding <06485> [visiting.]
found <04672> [If now.]
Lord .... Lord <0136> [let my Lord.]
stiff-necked <07186> [stiff-necked.]
pardon <05545> [pardon.]
inheritance <05157> [take us.]
make <03772> [I make.]
do wonders ....................................... doing <06213 06381> [I will do marvels.]
fearful <03372> [a terrible.]
Obey <08104> [Observe.]
drive <01644> [I drive.]
careful <08104> [Take heed.]
make .................. snare <03772 04170> [lest.]
Rather ... must destroy ......... down <05422> [ye shall.]
images <04676> [images. Heb. statutes.]
worship <07812> [worship.]
name <08034> [whose.]
god ........ Jealous .... jealous God <0410 07067> [jealous God.]
make <03772> [make.]
prostitute <02181> [whoring.]
invites ..... eat <07121 0398> [call thee.]
eat <0398> [eat.]
firstborn .......... firstborn <06363> [openeth.]
firstling <06363> [firstling.]
lamb <07716> [lamb. or, kid. All the.]
appear <07200> [none.]
six <08337> [Six.]
plowing <02758> [earing.]
Feast ... Weeks ........... Feast <07620 02282> [feast of weeks.]
[year's end. Heb. revolution of the year.]
times <06471> [Thrice.]
God <0430> [the God.]
drive <03423> [I will.]
enlarge <07337> [enlarge.]
covet <02530> [desire.]
yeast <02557> [leaven.]
remain <03885> [be left.]
first <07225> [first.]
cook <01310> [seethe.]
Write <03789> [Write.]
I ... made <03772> [I have.]
forty days ... forty <0705 03117> [forty days.]
wrote <03789> [he wrote.]
words ....... commandments <01697> [commandments. Heb. words.]
two tablets <03871 08147> [A.M. 2513. B.C. 1491. An. Ex. Is. 1. Elul. Two tables.]
know <03045> [wist.]
skin <05785> [the skin.]
face shone <07160 06440> [face shone.]
As the original word {karan,} signifies to shine out, or dart forth, as horns on the head of an animal, or rays of light reflected from a polished surface, we may suppose that the heavenly glory which filled the soul of this holy man, darted out from his face in coruscations, in the manner in which light is generally represented. The Vulgate renders it, {et ignorabat quod cornuta esset facies sua,} "and he did not know that his face was horned;" which version, misunderstood, has induced painters to represent Moses with two very large horns, one proceeding from each temple!
afraid <03372> [afraid.]
called <07121> [called.]
Moses ................... Moses spoke <04872 01696> [and Moses talked.]
commanded <06680> [he gave.]
veil <04533> [a vail.]
remove <05493> [he took.]
