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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.

Bible References

He saw

Exodus 32:4
He accepted the gold from them, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molten calf. Then they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt."
Deuteronomy 9:16
When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf; you had quickly turned aside from the way he had commanded you!

The dancing

Exodus 15:20
Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a hand-drum in her hand, and all the women went out after her with hand-drums and with dances.
2 Samuel 6:14
Now David, wearing a linen ephod, was dancing with all his strength before the Lord.
Lamentations 5:15
Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning.

Brake them

Deuteronomy 9:17
I grabbed the two tablets, threw them down, and shattered them before your very eyes.
Deuteronomy 27:26
Cursed is the one who refuses to keep the words of this law.' Then all the people will say, 'Amen!'
Jeremiah 31:32
It will not be like the old covenant that I made with their ancestors when I delivered them from Egypt. For they violated that covenant, even though I was like a faithful husband to them," says the Lord.
Zechariah 11:10
Then I took my staff "Pleasantness" and cut it in two to annul my covenant that I had made with all the people.

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