# Exodus 32

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/exodus/32

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. When the people saw that Moses was delaying to descend from the mountain, the people gathered to Aaron and said to him, “Arise, make gods for us who will go before us, for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt—we do not know what has become of him.”
2. Aaron said to them, “Remove the gold earrings from your wives’ ears, your sons’ ears, and your daughters’ ears, and bring them to me.”
3. All the people removed their golden earrings from their ears and brought them to Aaron.
4. He took from their hands and fashioned it with an engraving tool, making it a molten calf; and they said, "These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt."
5. When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and Aaron called out and said, "Tomorrow is a feast to Yahweh."
6. They rose early the next morning, ascended with burnt offerings, and approached with peace offerings; the people sat to eat and drink, then rose up to play.
7. Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go down, for your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!"
8. They have turned aside quickly from the way I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, bowed down to it, sacrificed to it, and said, "These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt."
9. Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people."
10. Now therefore let me alone, that my anger may burn against them and I may consume them, and I will make you a great nation.
11. Moses pleaded with Yahweh his God and said, "Yahweh, why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and a strong hand?"
12. Why should the Egyptians say, "He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains and consume them from the face of the earth?" Turn from your fierce anger and relent over this evil against your people.
13. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, whom you swore to by yourself and said to them, "I will multiply your offspring like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I said I will give to your offspring, they will inherit forever."
14. Yahweh relented from the calamity he had spoken of doing to his people.
15. Moses turned and descended from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets written on both their sides; on one side and on the other they were written.
16. The tablets themselves were the work of God, and the writing was God's writing itself, engraved on the tablets.
17. Joshua clearly heard the uproar of the people as they shouted, and declared to Moses, "Uproar of war in the army."
18. He said, "It is not the voice of triumphant shouting, nor the voice of shouting in defeat; it is the voice of singing that I hear."
19. As he approached the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing; Moses' anger burned, and he threw the tablets from his hands and broke them beneath the mountain.
20. He took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to dust, scattered it over the water's surface, and made Israel's sons drink it.
21. Moses said to Aaron, "What has this people done to you, that you have brought a great sin upon them?"
22. Aaron said, "Do not let your anger burn, my lord. You know the people, that they are prone to evil."
23. They said to me, "Make us gods who will go before us, for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt—we do not know what has become of him."
24. I said to them, "Whoever has gold, let them take it off," so they gave it to me, I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.
25. Moses saw that the people were exposed, for Aaron had exposed them to shame among their enemies.
26. Moses stood at the gate of the camp and said, "Who is for Yahweh? Come to me!" All the sons of Levi gathered to him.
27. He said to them, "Yahweh God of Israel declares: Each man put his sword on his thigh, pass back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and kill—each man his brother, each man his companion, each man his neighbor."
28. The sons of Levi did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand men fell from the people.
29. Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, for every man against his son and his brother, that he may give you a blessing today."
30. The next day Moses said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh; perhaps I can atone for your sin."
31. Moses returned to Yahweh and said, "Please, this people has sinned a great sin and made themselves gods of gold."
32. But now, if you forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out from your book that you have written.
33. Yahweh said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot him out from my book."
34. Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of to you. See, my angel will go before you. But on the day I punish, I will punish their sin upon them.
35. Yahweh struck the people because they made the calf that Aaron made.

## Nearby chapters

[Exodus 31](https://www.lumin.faith/read/exodus/31.md)
[Exodus 33](https://www.lumin.faith/read/exodus/33.md)

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