So they rose up the next day in the morning, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings: also (A)the people sat them down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

¶ Then the Lord said unto Moses, (B)Go get thee down: for thy people which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, hath corrupted their ways.

They [a]are soon turned out of the way, which I commanded them: for they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have offered thereto, saying, (C)These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 32:8 Whereby we see what necessity we have to pray earnestly to God, to keep us in his true obedience, and to send us good guides.

So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings.(A) Afterward they sat down to eat and drink(B) and got up to indulge in revelry.(C)

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt,(D) have become corrupt.(E) They have been quick to turn away(F) from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol(G) cast in the shape of a calf.(H) They have bowed down to it and sacrificed(I) to it and have said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.’(J)

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