Exodus 32:1-33:23 1 When the people saw that Moses delayed
in coming down
from the mountain, they
gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Get up,
make us gods
that will go before us. As for this fellow Moses,
the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what
has become of him!”
2 So Aaron said to them, “Break off the gold earrings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”
3 So all
the people broke off the gold earrings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.
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.”
5 When
Aaron saw this,
he built an altar before it,
and Aaron made a proclamation
and said, “Tomorrow will be a feast
to the
Lord.”
6 So they got up early on the next day and offered up burnt offerings and brought peace offerings, and the people sat down to eat and drink,
and they rose up to play.
7 The
Lord spoke to Moses: “Go quickly, descend,
because your
people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly.
8 They have quickly turned aside
from the way that I commanded them – they have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”
9 Then the
Lord said to Moses: “I have seen this people.
Look
what a stiff-necked people they are!
10 So now, leave me alone
so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.”
11 But Moses sought the favor
of the
Lord his God and said, “O
Lord, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
12 Why
should the Egyptians say,
‘For evil
he led them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy
them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger, and relent
of this evil against your people.
13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them, ‘I will multiply your descendants
like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about
I will give to your descendants,
and they will inherit it forever.’”
14 Then the
Lord relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.
15 Moses turned and went down from the mountain with
the two tablets of the testimony in his hands. The tablets were written on both sides – they were written on the front and on the back.
16 Now the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted,
he said to Moses, “It is the sound of war in the camp!”
18 Moses
said, “It is not the sound of those who shout for victory,
nor is it the sound of those who cry because they are overcome,
but the sound of singing
I hear.”
19 When he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became extremely angry.
He threw the tablets from his hands and broke them to pieces at the bottom of the mountain.
20 He took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire, ground it
to powder, poured it out on the water, and made the Israelites drink it.
21 Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, that you have brought on them so great a sin?”
22 Aaron said, “Do not let your anger burn hot, my lord;
you know these people, that they tend to evil.
23 They said to me, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this fellow Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’
24 So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, break it off.’ So they gave it
to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.”
25 Moses saw that the people were running wild,
for Aaron had let them get completely out of control, causing derision from their enemies.
26 So Moses stood at the entrance of the camp and said, “Whoever is for the
Lord, come
to me.”
All the Levites gathered around him,
27 and he said to them, “Thus says the
Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Each man fasten
his sword on his side, and go back and forth
from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and each one kill his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’”
28 The Levites did what Moses ordered,
and that day about three thousand men of the people died.
29 Moses said, “You have been consecrated
today for the
Lord, for each of you was against his son or against his brother, so he has given a blessing to you today.”
30 The next day Moses said to the people,
“You have committed a very serious sin,
but now I will go up to the
Lord – perhaps I can make atonement
on behalf of your sin.”
31 So Moses returned to the
Lord and said, “Alas, this people has committed a very serious sin,
and they have made for themselves gods of gold.
32 But now, if you will forgive their sin…,
but if not, wipe me out
from your book that you have written.”
33 The
Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me – that person I will wipe out of my book.
34 So now go, lead the people to the place I have spoken to you about. See,
my angel will go before you. But on the day that I punish, I will indeed punish them for their sin.”
35 And the
Lord sent a plague on the people because they had made the calf
– the one Aaron made.
1 The
Lord said to Moses, “Go up
from here, you and the people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land I promised on oath
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’
2 I will send an angel
before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
3 Go up
to a land flowing with milk and honey. But
I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you
on the way.”
4 When the people heard this troubling word
they mourned;
no one put on his ornaments.
5 For
the
Lord had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up among you for a moment,
I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments,
that I may know
what I should do to you.’”
6 So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments by Mount Horeb.
7 Moses took
the tent
and pitched it outside the camp, at a good distance
from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. Anyone
seeking
the
Lord would go out to the tent of meeting that was outside the camp.
8 And when Moses went out
to the tent, all the people would get up
and stand at the entrance to their tents
and watch
Moses until he entered the tent.
9 And
whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the
Lord would speak with Moses.
10 When all the people would see the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people, each one at the entrance of his own tent, would rise and worship.
11 The
Lord would speak to Moses face to face,
the way a person speaks
to a friend. Then Moses
would return to the camp, but his servant, Joshua son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the tent.
12 Moses said to the
Lord, “See, you have been saying to me, ‘Bring this people up,’
but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. But you said, ‘I know you by name,
and also you have found favor in my sight.’
13 Now if I have found favor in your sight, show me
your way, that I may know you,
that I may continue to find
favor in your sight. And see
that this nation is your people.”
14 And the
Lord said, “My presence
will go with you,
and I will give you rest.”
15 And Moses
said to him, “If your presence does not go
with us,
do not take us up from here.
16 For how will it be known then that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not by your going with us, so that we will be distinguished, I and your people, from all the people who are on the face of the earth?”
17 The
Lord said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have requested, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know
you by name.”
18 And Moses
said, “Show me your glory.”
19 And the
Lord said, “I will make all my goodness
pass before your face, and I will proclaim the
Lord by name
before you; I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy.”
20 But he added, “You cannot see my face, for no one can
see me and live.”
21 The
Lord said, “Here
is a place by me; you will station yourself
on a rock.
22 When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and will cover
you with my hand
while I pass by.
23 Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back,
but my face must not be seen.”
Context (NET) Matthew 26:69-27:14 69 Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A
slave girl
came to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.”
70 But he denied it in front of them all:
“I don’t know what you’re talking about!”
71 When
he went out to the gateway, another slave girl
saw him and said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.”
72 He denied it again with an oath, “I do not know the man!”
73 After
a little while, those standing there came up to Peter and said, “You really are one of them too – even your accent
gives you away!”
74 At that he began to curse, and he swore with an oath, “I do not know the man!” At that moment a rooster crowed.
75 Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.
1 When
it was early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to execute him.
2 They
tied him up, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate
the governor.
3 Now when
Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus
had been condemned, he regretted what he had done and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders,
4 saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!” But they said, “What is that to us? You take care of it yourself!”
5 So
Judas threw the silver coins into the temple and left. Then he went out and hanged himself.
6 The
chief priests took the silver and said, “It is not lawful to put this into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.”
7 After
consulting together they bought the Potter’s Field with it, as a burial place for foreigners.
8 For this reason that field has been called the “Field of Blood” to this day.
9 Then what was spoken by Jeremiah
the prophet was fulfilled: “
They took the thirty silver coins, the price of the one whose price had been set by the people of Israel,
10 and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me.”
11 Then
Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him,
“Are you the king
of the Jews?” Jesus
said, “You say so.”
12 But when he was accused by the chief priests and the elders, he did not respond.
13 Then Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear how many charges they are bringing against you?”
14 But he did not answer even one accusation, so that the governor was quite amazed.
Context (NET) Psalm 33:1-11 1 You godly ones, shout for joy because of the
Lord! It is appropriate for the morally upright to offer him praise.
2 Give thanks to the
Lord with the harp! Sing to him to the accompaniment of a ten-stringed instrument!
3 Sing to him a new song!
Play skillfully as you shout out your praises to him!
4 For
the
Lord’s decrees
are just,
and everything he does is fair.
5 The
Lord promotes
equity and justice; the
Lord’s faithfulness extends throughout the earth.
6 By the
Lord’s decree
the heavens were made; by a mere word from his mouth all the stars in the sky were created.
7 He piles up the water of the sea;
he puts the oceans
in storehouses.
8 Let the whole earth fear
the
Lord! Let all who live in the world stand in awe of him!
9 For he spoke, and it
came into existence, he issued the decree,
and it stood firm.
10 The
Lord frustrates
the decisions of the nations; he nullifies the plans
of the peoples.
11 The
Lord’s decisions stand forever; his plans abide throughout the ages.
Context (NET) Proverbs 8:33-36 33 Listen to my instruction
so that you may be wise,
and do not neglect it.
34 Blessed is the one
who listens to me, watching
at my doors day by day, waiting
beside my doorway.
35 For the one who finds me finds
life and receives
favor from the
Lord.
36 But the one who does not find me
brings harm
to himself;
all who hate me
love death.”
Context (NET)
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