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2. Mooseksen kirjaLuku 32

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When the people saw that Moses was taking so long to come down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, "Get up, make us gods to go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him."
Aaron said to them, "Take off the gold rings in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me."
So all the people took off the gold rings that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.
He took the gold from their hands, shaped it with a tool, and made it into a molten calf. Then they said, "These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!"
When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it and announced, "Tomorrow there will be a festival to the LORD."
So the next morning they rose early, offered burnt offerings, and brought fellowship offerings. The people sat down to eat and drink, and then got up to indulge themselves.
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.
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 out of the land of Egypt.'"
The LORD said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and they are a stiff-necked people.
Now leave me alone, so that my anger may burn against them and I may consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation."
But Moses pleaded with the LORD his God: "LORD, why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?
Why should the Egyptians say, 'He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them off the face of the earth'? Turn from your burning anger; relent from this disaster against your people.
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, saying, 'I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.'"
So the LORD relented from the disaster he had said he would bring on his people.
Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets written on both sides, front and back.
The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
When Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Moses, "There is the sound of war in the camp."
But Moses replied, "It is not the sound of victory, nor the sound of defeat; what I hear is the sound of singing."
As Moses came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned. He threw the tablets out of his hands and shattered them at the foot of the mountain.
He took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, scattered it on the water, and made the Israelites drink it.
Then Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you brought such a great sin upon them?"
Aaron answered, "Do not let my lord's anger burn. You know these people and how prone they are to evil.
They said to me, 'Make us gods to go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him.'
So I said to them, 'Whoever has gold, take it off.' They gave it to me, I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf."
Moses saw that the people were running wild, for Aaron had let them get out of control, to the derision of their enemies.
So Moses stood at the entrance to the camp and said, "Whoever is for the LORD, come to me!" And all the Levites gathered around him.
He said to them, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Every man strap his sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from gate to gate, and each of you kill his brother, his companion, and his relative."
The Levites did as Moses said, and about three thousand of the people fell that day.
Then Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves to the LORD today, for each of you has gone against his own son and his own brother, so that the LORD may bestow a blessing on you this day."
The next day Moses said to the people, "You have committed a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin."
So Moses went back to the LORD and said, "Oh, this people has committed a great sin! They have made themselves gods of gold.
And now, if you would only forgive their sin—but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.
The LORD answered Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, that one I will blot out of my book.
Now go, lead the people to the place I told you about. My angel will go before you. But when the day comes for punishment, I will punish them for their sin."
And the LORD struck the people with a plague because they made the calf — the calf Aaron had made.
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