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31 So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Oh, what a terrible sin these people have committed. They have made gods of gold for themselves.

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23 Remember, you must not make any idols of silver or gold to rival me.

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11 All Israel has disobeyed your instruction and turned away, refusing to listen to your voice.

“So now the solemn curses and judgments written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured down on us because of our sin.

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O Lord, we and our kings, princes, and ancestors are covered with shame because we have sinned against you.

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Moses Intercedes for Israel

30 The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a terrible sin, but I will go back up to the Lord on the mountain. Perhaps I will be able to obtain forgiveness[a] for your sin.”

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Footnotes

  1. 32:30 Or to make atonement.

But we have sinned and done wrong. We have rebelled against you and scorned your commands and regulations.

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33 Every time you punished us you were being just. We have sinned greatly, and you gave us only what we deserved.

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15 O Lord, God of Israel, you are just. We come before you in our guilt as nothing but an escaped remnant, though in such a condition none of us can stand in your presence.”

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I prayed,

“O my God, I am utterly ashamed; I blush to lift up my face to you. For our sins are piled higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached to the heavens. From the days of our ancestors until now, we have been steeped in sin. That is why we and our kings and our priests have been at the mercy of the pagan kings of the land. We have been killed, captured, robbed, and disgraced, just as we are today.

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18 “Then, as before, I threw myself down before the Lord for forty days and nights. I ate no bread and drank no water because of the great sin you had committed by doing what the Lord hated, provoking him to anger. 19 I feared that the furious anger of the Lord, which turned him against you, would drive him to destroy you. But again he listened to me.

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28 Moses remained there on the mountain with the Lord forty days and forty nights. In all that time he ate no bread and drank no water. And the Lord[a] wrote the terms of the covenant—the Ten Commandments[b]—on the stone tablets.

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Footnotes

  1. 34:28a Hebrew he.
  2. 34:28b Hebrew the ten words.

“You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea.

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