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Exodus 32:17-19
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Exodus 32:17-19
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17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted,[a] he said to Moses, “It is the sound of war in the camp!” 18 Moses[b] said, “It is not the sound of those who shout for victory,[c] nor is it the sound of those who cry because they are overcome,[d] but the sound of singing[e] I hear.”[f]
19 When he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became extremely angry.[g] He threw the tablets from his hands and broke them to pieces at the bottom of the mountain.[h]
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- Exodus 32:17 sn See F. C. Fensham, “New Light from Ugaritica V on Ex, 32:17 (brʿh),” JNSL 2 (1972): 86-7.
- Exodus 32:18 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- Exodus 32:18 tn Heb “the sound of the answering of might,” meaning it is not the sound of shouting in victory (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 418).
- Exodus 32:18 tn Heb “the sound of the answering of weakness,” meaning the cry of the defeated (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 415).
- Exodus 32:18 tn Heb “answering in song” (a play on the twofold meaning of the word).
- Exodus 32:18 sn See A. Newman, “Compositional Analysis and Functional Ambiguity Equivalence: Translating Exodus 32, 17-18, ” Babel 21 (1975): 29-35.
- Exodus 32:19 tn Heb “and the anger of Moses burned hot.”
- Exodus 32:19 sn See N. M. Waldham, “The Breaking of the Tablets,” Judaism 27 (1978): 442-47.
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