Exodus 32:25-29

The Golden Calf

²⁵ And when Moses saw that the people had broken loose (for Aaron had let them break loose, _c to the derision of their enemies), ²⁶ then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, "Who is on the Lord's side? Come to me." And all the sons of Levi gathered around him. ²⁷ And he said to them, "Thus says the Lord God of Israel, 'Put your sword on your side each of you, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you _d kill his brother and his companion and his neighbor.'" ²⁸ And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And that day about three thousand men of the people fell. ²⁹ And Moses said, "Today you have been _e ordained for the service of the Lord, each one at the cost of his son and of his brother, so that he might bestow a blessing upon you this day."

1. Cross References
   Exodus 32:12
   Why should the Egyptians say, 'With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people.
   
2. Cross References
   Numbers 25:5
   And Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you kill those of his men who have yoked themselves to Baal of Peor.
   Deuteronomy 33:9
   Who said of his father and mother, 'I regard them not'; he disowned his brothers and ignored his children. For they observed your word and kept your covenant.
   
3. Cross References
   Zechariah 13:3
   And if anyone again prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, 'You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the Lord.' And his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.
   Matthew 10:37
   Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
   Luke 14:26
   If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
   Numbers 25:11 - 13
   Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy.
   Deuteronomy 13:6 - 10
   If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which neither you nor your fathers have known.