The Golden Calf

Deuteronomy 9

13 "Furthermore t the LORD spoke to me, saying, 'I have seen this people, and indeed u they are a 1 stiff-necked people. 14 v 'Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and w blot out their name from under heaven; x and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.' 15 y "So I turned and came down from the mountain, and z the mountain burned with fire; and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. 16 "And a I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God - had made for yourselves a molded calf! You had turned aside quickly from the way which the LORD had commanded you. 17 "Then I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and b broke them before your eyes. 18 "And I c fell 2 down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger. 19 d "For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the LORD was angry with you, to destroy you. e But the LORD listened to me at that time also. 20 "And the LORD was very angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him; so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. 21 "Then I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it and ground it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I f threw its dust into the brook that descended from the mountain.

22 "Also at g Taberah and h Massah and i Kibroth Hattaavah you 3 provoked the LORD to wrath. 23 "Likewise, j when the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, 'Go up and possess the land which I have given you,' then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and k you did not believe Him nor obey His voice. 24 l "You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.

25 m "Thus I 4 prostrated myself before the LORD; forty days and forty nights I kept prostrating myself, because the LORD had said He would destroy you. 26 "Therefore I prayed to the LORD, and said: 'O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people and n Your inheritance whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 'Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness or their sin, 28 'lest the land from which You brought us should say, "Because the LORD was not able to bring them to the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness." 29 'Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.'

  1. Cross References
    Exodus 32:9
    And the LORD said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people!
  2. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 9:6
    Therefore understand that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.
  3. Cross References
    Exodus 32:10
    "Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation."
  4. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 29:20
    The LORD would not spare him; for then the anger of the LORD and His jealousy would burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him, and the LORD would blot out his name from under heaven.
  5. Cross References
    Numbers 14:12
    "I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
  6. Cross References
    Exodus 32:15 - 19
    And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the Testimony were in his hand. The tablets were written on both sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.
  7. Cross References
    Exodus 19:18
    Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
  8. Cross References
    Exodus 32:19
    So it was, as soon as he came near the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing. So Moses' anger became hot, and he cast the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.
  9. Cross References
    Exodus 32:19
    So it was, as soon as he came near the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing. So Moses' anger became hot, and he cast the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.
  10. Cross References
    Exodus 34:28
    So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
    Psalms 106:23
    Therefore He said that He would destroy them, Had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach, To turn away His wrath, lest He destroy them.
  11. Cross References
    Exodus 32:10
    "Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation."
    Exodus 32:11
    Then Moses pleaded with the LORD his God, and said: "LORD, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
    Hebrews 12:21
    And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.")
  12. Cross References
    Exodus 32:14
    So the LORD relented from the harm which He said He would do to His people.
  13. Cross References
    Exodus 32:20
    Then he took the calf which they had made, burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder; and he scattered it on the water and made the children of Israel drink it.
  14. Cross References
    Numbers 11:1
    Now when the people complained, it displeased the LORD; for the LORD heard it, and His anger was aroused. So the fire of the LORD burned among them, and consumed some in the outskirts of the camp.
    Numbers 11:3
    So he called the name of the place Taberah, because the fire of the LORD had burned among them.
  15. Cross References
    Exodus 17:7
    So he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contention of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?
  16. Cross References
    Numbers 11:4
    Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: "Who will give us meat to eat?
    Numbers 11:34
    So he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had yielded to craving.
  17. Cross References
    Numbers 13:3
    So Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran according to the command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.
  18. Cross References
    Psalms 106:24
    Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe His word.
    Psalms 106:25
    But complained in their tents, And did not heed the voice of the LORD.
  19. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 9:7
    Remember! Do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.
    Deuteronomy 31:27
    For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. If today, while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the LORD, then how much more after my death?
  20. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 9:18
    And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger.
  21. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:9
    For the LORD's portion is His people; Jacob is the place of His inheritance.
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