Exodus 32:19

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Summary

And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.

He saw

Exodus 32:4

Deuteronomy 9:16

The dancing

Exodus 15:20

2 Samuel 6:14

Lamentations 5:15

Brake them

Bible References

He saw

He took them from them and, using a tool, fashioned them into a molten calf. The people said, "This, Israel, is your god who brought you out of the land of Egypt."

Then I saw how you had really sinned against the LORD your God! You had made for yourselves a calf, a cast idol. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD your God had commanded.

The dancing

Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron's sister, took a tambourine in her hand and went out with all the women behind her with tambourines and dancing.

dancing in front of the LORD with all of his strength and wearing a linen ephod.

The joy of our hearts has ceased, and our dancing has turned into dirges.

Brake them

So I grabbed the two tablets and then threw them out of my hands, breaking them before your eyes.

""Cursed is the one who doesn't uphold the words of this Law and observe them.' "Then all the people are to respond by saying, "Amen!'"

It won't be like the covenant I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. They broke my covenant, although I was a husband to them," declares the LORD.

Then I took the staff that I had named "Pleasant" and broke it, showing I was breaking my covenant that I had made with all of the people.