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17 Then Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting. He said to Moses, “It’s the sound of war in the camp!”

18 Moses replied,

“It’s not the sound of winners shouting.
    It’s not the sound of losers crying.
        It’s the sound of a wild celebration[a] that I hear.”

19 When he came near the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. In a burst of anger Moses threw down the tablets and smashed them at the foot of the mountain.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 32:18 Hebrew meaning of “wild celebration” uncertain.

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