Exodus 32:31

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Then Moses went back to the Lord and said, This people has done a great sin, making themselves a god of gold;

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  • Exod 20:23 : 23 Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves.
  • Exod 32:30 : 30 And on the day after, Moses said to the people, Great has been your sin: but I will go up to the Lord, and see if I may get forgiveness for your sin.
  • Exod 34:28 : 28 And for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with the Lord, and in that time he had no food or drink. And he put in writing on the stones the words of the agreement, the ten rules of the law.
  • Deut 9:18-19 : 18 And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights, without taking food or drinking water, because of all your sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and moving him to wrath. 19 For I was full of fear because of the wrath of the Lord which was burning against you, with your destruction in view. But again the Lord's ear was open to my prayer.
  • Ezra 9:6-7 : 6 I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven. 7 From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners; and for our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been given up into the hands of the kings of the lands, to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.
  • Ezra 9:15 : 15 O Lord God of Israel, righteousness is yours; we are only a small band which has been kept from death, as at this day: see, we are before you in our sin; for no one may keep his place before you because of this.
  • Neh 9:33 : 33 But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil:
  • Dan 9:5 : 5 We are sinners, acting wrongly and doing evil; we have gone against you, turning away from your orders and from your laws:
  • Dan 9:8 : 8 O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you.
  • Dan 9:11 : 11 And all Israel have been sinners against your law, turning away so as not to give ear to your voice: and the curse has been let loose on us, and the oath recorded in the law of Moses, the servant of God, for we have done evil against him.
  • Exod 20:4 : 4 You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:

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  • Exod 32:30
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    30And on the day after, Moses said to the people, Great has been your sin: but I will go up to the Lord, and see if I may get forgiveness for your sin.

  • Exod 32:19-25
    7 verses
    82%

    19And when he came near the tents he saw the image of the ox, and the people dancing; and in his wrath Moses let the stones go from his hands, and they were broken at the foot of the mountain.

    20And he took the ox which they had made, burning it in the fire and crushing it to powder, and he put it in the water and made the children of Israel take a drink of it.

    21And Moses said to Aaron, What did the people do to you that you let this great sin come on them?

    22And Aaron said, Let not my lord be angry; you have seen how the purposes of this people are evil.

    23For they said to me, Make us a god to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has come to him.

    24Then I said to them, Whoever has any gold, let him take it off; so they gave it to me, and I put it in the fire, and this image of an ox came out.

    25And Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them loose to their shame before their haters:

  • Exod 32:7-9
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    7And the Lord said to Moses, Go down quickly; for your people, whom you took out of the land of Egypt, are turned to evil ways;

    8Even now they are turned away from the rule I gave them, and have made themselves a metal ox and given worship to it and offerings, saying, This is your god, O Israel, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.

    9And the Lord said to Moses, I have been watching this people, and I see that they are a stiff-necked people.

  • Exod 32:1-4
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    78%

    1And when the people saw that Moses was a long time coming down from the mountain, they all came to Aaron and said to him, Come, make us a god to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him.

    2Then Aaron said to them, Take off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives and your sons and your daughters, and give them to me.

    3And all the people took the gold rings from their ears and gave them to Aaron.

    4And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.

  • Deut 9:12
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    12And the Lord said to me, Get up now, and go down quickly from this place; for the people you have taken out of Egypt have given themselves over to evil; they have quickly been turned from the way in which I gave them orders to go; they have made themselves a metal image.

  • Exod 5:22
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    22And Moses went back to the Lord and said, Lord, why have you done evil to this people? why have you sent me?

  • Exod 32:11-12
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    11But Moses made prayer to God, saying, Lord, why is your wrath burning against your people whom you took out of the land of Egypt, with great power and with the strength of your hand?

    12Why let the Egyptians say, He took them out to an evil fate, to put them to death on the mountains, cutting them off from the earth? Let your wrath be turned away from them, and send not this evil on your people.

  • Neh 9:18
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    18Even when they had made for themselves an ox of metal, and said, This is your God who took you up out of Egypt, and had done so much to make you angry;

  • Exod 32:32-33
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    75%

    32But now, if you will give them forgiveness--but if not, let my name be taken out of your book.

    33And the Lord said to Moses, Whoever has done evil against me will be taken out of my book.

  • Exod 32:35
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    35And the Lord sent punishment on the people because they gave worship to the ox which Aaron made.

  • Acts 7:40-41
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    40And saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him.

    41And they made the image of a young ox in those days, and made an offering to it, and had joy in the work of their hands.

  • Num 21:7
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    7Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong in crying out against the Lord and against you: make prayer to the Lord to take away the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer for the people.

  • Exod 34:31
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    31Then Moses sent for them; and Aaron, with the chiefs of the people, came to him; and Moses had talk with them.

  • Deut 9:16
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    16And I saw that you had done evil against the Lord, and had made for yourselves a metal image of a young ox: you had quickly been turned from the way in which the Lord had given you orders to go.

  • Exod 10:16
    73%

    16Then Pharaoh quickly sent for Moses and Aaron, and said, I have done evil against the Lord your God and against you.

  • Num 31:51
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    51So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, even all the worked ornaments.

  • Deut 31:16
    72%

    16And the Lord said to Moses, Now you are going to rest with your fathers; and this people will be false to me, uniting themselves to the strange gods of the land where they are going; they will be turned away from me and will not keep the agreement I have made with them.

  • Exod 34:8-9
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    72%

    8Then Moses quickly went down on his face in worship.

    9And he said, If now I have grace in your eyes, let the Lord go among us, for this is a stiff-necked people, and give us forgiveness for our wrongdoing and our sin, and take us for your heritage.

  • Num 12:11
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    11Then Aaron said to Moses, O my lord, let not our sin be on our heads, for we have done foolishly and are sinners.

  • Exod 9:27
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    27Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have done evil this time: the Lord is upright, and I and my people are sinners.

  • Exod 30:11
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    11And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 27:15
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    15Then Moses said to the Lord,

  • Exod 32:14
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    14So the Lord let himself be turned from his purpose of sending punishment on his people.

  • Exod 17:4
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    4And Moses, crying out to the Lord, said, What am I to do to this people? they are almost ready to put me to death by stoning.

  • Num 14:13
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    13And Moses said to the Lord, Then it will come to the ears of the Egyptians; for by your power you took this people out from among them;

  • Ps 106:19
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    19They made a young ox in Horeb, and gave worship to an image of gold.

  • Num 14:41
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    41And Moses said, Why are you now acting against the Lord's order, seeing that no good will come of it?

  • Exod 33:5
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    5And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You are a stiff-necked people: if I come among you, even for a minute, I will send destruction on you; so take off all your ornaments, so that I may see what to do with you.

  • Exod 19:8
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    8And all the people, answering together, said, Whatever the Lord has said we will do. And Moses took back to the Lord the words of the people.