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

And he took from their hand, and he shaped it with a tool, and he made it a cast-image bull calf, and they said, "These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt."

And I looked, and indeed you had sinned against Yahweh your God; you [had] made for yourselves an image of a calf [of] cast metal; you [had] turned quickly from the way that Yahweh had commanded [for] you.

The dancing

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took her tambourine in her hand, and all of the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

Now David [was] dancing with all [his] might before Yahweh, and David [was] wearing a linen ephod.

The joy of our hearts has stopped; our circle-dancing has changed to a mourning ceremony.

Brake them

And I took hold of the two tablets, and I threw them out {of} my two hands and smashed them before your eyes.

'Cursed be [the one] {who does not keep} the words of this law, to observe them.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'"

not like the covenant that I {made} with their ancestors on the day of my grasping [them] by their hand, bringing them out from the land of Egypt, my covenant that they themselves broke, though I myself was a master over them," {declares} Yahweh.

And I took my staff Kindness and broke it, to break my covenant that I {had made} with all the peoples.