Exodus 32:7-10

The Golden Calf

7 And the Lord said to Moses, e "Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have f corrupted themselves. 8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way that g I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, 'These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!'" 9 And the Lord said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and behold, h it is a stiff-necked people. 10 Now therefore i let me alone, that j my wrath may burn hot against them and k I may consume them, in order that l I may make a great nation of you."

  1. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 9:12
    Then the Lord said to me, 'Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them; they have made themselves a metal image.
  2. Cross References
    Judges 2:19
    But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.
    Hosea 9:9
    They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins.
  3. Cross References
    Exodus 20:3 - 4
    You shall have no other gods before me.
    Exodus 20:23
    You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.
    Deuteronomy 9:16
    And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God. You had made yourselves a golden calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord had commanded you.
  4. Cross References
    Exodus 33:3
    Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; bu...
    Exodus 33:5
    For the Lord had said to Moses, "Say to the peo...
    Exodus 34:9
    And he said, "If now I have found favor in your...
    Deuteronomy 9:6
    Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is not ...
    Deuteronomy 9:13
    Furthermore, the Lord said to me, 'I have seen ...
    Deuteronomy 31:27
    For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are....
    2 Chronicles 30:8
    Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were...
    Acts 7:51
    You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart...
    Isaiah 48:4
    Because I know that you are obstinate, and your...
  5. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 9:14
    Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.
  6. Cross References
    Exodus 22:24
    And my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.
  7. Cross References
    Exodus 33:3
    Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.
  8. Cross References
    Numbers 14:12
    I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.
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