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Exodus - ch 32 v 21 - 35
- And Moses said to Aaron, What has this people done to thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin on them?
- And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord burn! thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
- And they said to me, Make us a god, who will go before us; for this Moses, the man that has brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what is become of him!
- And I said to them, Who has gold? They broke it off, and gave it me, and I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.
- And Moses saw the people how they were stripped; for Aaron had stripped them to their shame before their adversaries.
- And Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, He that is for Jehovah, let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered to him.
- And he said to them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Put every man his sword upon his hip; go and return from gate to gate through the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his friend, and every man his neighbour.
- And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
- And Moses said, Consecrate yourselves to-day to Jehovah, yea, every man with his son, and with his brother, and bring on yourselves a blessing to-day.
- And it came to pass the next day, that Moses said to the people, Ye have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to Jehovah: perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.
- And Moses returned to Jehovah, and said, Alas, this people has sinned a great sin, and they have made themselves a god of gold!
- And now, if thou wilt forgive their sin ... but if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book that thou hast written.
- And Jehovah said to Moses, Whoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
- And now go, lead the people whither I have told thee: behold, my Angel shall go before thee; but in the day of my visiting I will visit their sin upon them.
- And Jehovah smote the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron had made.
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