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Exodus 32:22-24
New English Translation
Exodus 32:22-24
New English Translation
22 Aaron said, “Do not let your anger burn hot, my lord;[a] you know these people, that they tend to evil.[b] 23 They said to me, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this fellow Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’ 24 So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, break it off.’ So they gave it[c] to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.”[d]
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- Exodus 32:22 sn “My lord” refers to Moses.
- Exodus 32:22 tn Heb “that on evil it is.”
- Exodus 32:24 tn Here “it” has been supplied.
- Exodus 32:24 sn Aaron first tried to blame the people, and then he tried to make it sound like a miracle—was it to sound like one of the plagues where out of the furnace came life? This text does not mention it, but Deut 9:20 tells how angry God was with Aaron. Only intercession saved his life.
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