Exodus 32:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And Jehovah spake unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, that thou broughtest up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֑ה לֶךְ־רֵ֕ד כִּ֚י שִׁחֵ֣ת עַמְּךָ֔ אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֶעֱלֵ֖יתָ מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

And wayədabbēr YHWH to Mōšeh, Go rēd for šiḥēt your ʿamməkā whom heʿĕlêtā from ʾereṣ Miṣrāyim.

Grammar Details

• *wayədabbēr*: Piel imperfect 3rd masculine singular with waw consecutive - and he spoke
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD/Yahweh
• *Mōšeh*: proper noun - Moses
• *rēd*: Qal imperative masculine singular - go down
• *šiḥēt*: Piel perfect 3rd masculine singular - corrupted/ruined
• *ʿamməkā*: noun masculine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your people
• *heʿĕlêtā*: Hiphil perfect 2nd masculine singular - you brought up

Word Meanings

• *šiḥēt*: corrupted/ruined/destroyed/acted corruptly

Referenced Verses

• Deut 9:12 : 12 And Jehovah said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people that thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
• Exod 32:11 : 11 And Moses besought Jehovah his God, and said, Jehovah, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, that thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
• Gen 6:11-12 : 11 And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
• Judg 2:19 : 19 But it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.
• Hos 9:9 : 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
• Dan 9:24 : 24 Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
• Exod 19:24 : 24 And Jehovah said unto him, Go, get thee down; and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto Jehovah, lest he break forth upon them.
• Exod 32:1 : 1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.
• Exod 32:4 : 4 And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf: and they said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
• Exod 33:1 : 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, Depart, go up hence, thou and the people that thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land of which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:
• Deut 4:16 : 16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
• Deut 32:5 : 5 They have dealt corruptly with him, [they] [are] not his children, [it is] their blemish; [They are] a perverse and crooked generation.