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The Gold Calf

32 When the people saw how long it was taking Moses to come back down the mountain, they gathered around Aaron. “Come on,” they said, “make us some gods who can lead us. We don’t know what happened to this fellow Moses, who brought us here from the land of Egypt.”

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The Golden Calf

32 When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain,(A) they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods[a] who will go before(B) us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 32:1 Or a god; also in verses 23 and 31

40 They told Aaron, ‘Make us some gods who can lead us, for we don’t know what has become of this Moses, who brought us out of Egypt.’

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40 They told Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who led us out of Egypt—we don’t know what has happened to him!’[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:40 Exodus 32:1

This happened when I was on the mountain receiving the tablets of stone inscribed with the words of the covenant that the Lord had made with you. I was there for forty days and forty nights, and all that time I ate no food and drank no water.

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When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant(A) that the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days(B) and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.(C)

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They will say, “What happened to the promise that Jesus is coming again? From before the times of our ancestors, everything has remained the same since the world was first created.”

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They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised?(A) Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”(B)

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48 But what if the servant is evil and thinks, ‘My master won’t be back for a while,’

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48 But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’

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18 Then Moses disappeared into the cloud as he climbed higher up the mountain. He remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

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18 Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty(A) days and forty nights.(B)

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11 “At the end of the forty days and nights, the Lord handed me the two stone tablets inscribed with the words of the covenant. 12 Then the Lord said to me, ‘Get up! Go down immediately, for the people you brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned away from the way I commanded them to live! They have melted gold and made an idol for themselves!’

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11 At the end of the forty days and forty nights,(A) the Lord gave me the two stone tablets,(B) the tablets of the covenant. 12 Then the Lord told me, “Go down from here at once, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have become corrupt.(C) They have turned away quickly(D) from what I commanded them and have made an idol for themselves.”

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29 And since this is true, we shouldn’t think of God as an idol designed by craftsmen from gold or silver or stone.

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29 “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill.(A)

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26 But as you have seen and heard, this man Paul has persuaded many people that handmade gods aren’t really gods at all. And he’s done this not only here in Ephesus but throughout the entire province!

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26 And you see and hear how this fellow Paul has convinced and led astray large numbers of people here in Ephesus(A) and in practically the whole province of Asia.(B) He says that gods made by human hands are no gods at all.(C)

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For I brought you out of Egypt
    and redeemed you from slavery.
    I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to help you.

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I brought you up out of Egypt(A)
    and redeemed you from the land of slavery.(B)
I sent Moses(C) to lead you,
    also Aaron(D) and Miriam.(E)

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13 Then by a prophet
    the Lord brought Jacob’s descendants[a] out of Egypt;
and by that prophet
    they were protected.

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Footnotes

  1. 12:13 Hebrew brought Israel. See note on 10:11b.

13 The Lord used a prophet to bring Israel up from Egypt,(A)
    by a prophet he cared for him.(B)

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A Warning against Idolatry

15 “But be very careful! You did not see the Lord’s form on the day he spoke to you from the heart of the fire at Mount Sinai. 16 So do not corrupt yourselves by making an idol in any form—whether of a man or a woman, 17 an animal on the ground, a bird in the sky, 18 a small animal that scurries along the ground, or a fish in the deepest sea.

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Idolatry Forbidden

15 You saw no form(A) of any kind the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb(B) out of the fire. Therefore watch yourselves very carefully,(C) 16 so that you do not become corrupt(D) and make for yourselves an idol,(E) an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman, 17 or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air,(F) 18 or like any creature that moves along the ground or any fish in the waters below.

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14 The Lord replied, “I will personally go with you, Moses, and I will give you rest—everything will be fine for you.”

15 Then Moses said, “If you don’t personally go with us, don’t make us leave this place.

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14 The Lord replied, “My Presence(A) will go with you, and I will give you rest.”(B)

15 Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence(C) does not go with us, do not send us up from here.

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