Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 20:23 : 23 You must not make gods of silver alongside me, nor make gods of gold for yourselves.
  • Exod 32:30 : 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.”
  • Exod 34:28 : 28 So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
  • Deut 9:18-19 : 18 Then I again fell down before the LORD for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the LORD as to enrage him. 19 For I was terrified at the LORD’s intense anger that threatened to destroy you. But he listened to me this time as well.
  • Ezra 9:6-7 : 6 I prayed,“O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God! For our iniquities have climbed higher than our heads, and our guilt extends to the heavens. 7 From the days of our fathers until this very day our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities we, along with our kings and priests, have been delivered over by the local kings to sword, captivity, plunder, and embarrassment– right up to the present time.
  • Ezra 9:15 : 15 O LORD God of Israel, you are righteous, for we are left as a remnant this day. Indeed, we stand before you in our guilt. However, because of this guilt no one can really stand before you.”
  • Neh 9:33 : 33 You are righteous with regard to all that has happened to us, for you have acted faithfully. It is we who have been in the wrong!
  • Dan 9:5 : 5 we have sinned! We have done what is wrong and wicked; we have rebelled by turning away from your commandments and standards.
  • Dan 9:8 : 8 O LORD, we have been humiliated– our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors– because we have sinned against you.
  • Dan 9:11 : 11 “All Israel has broken your law and turned away by not obeying you. Therefore you have poured out on us the judgment solemnly threatened in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against you.
  • Exod 20:4 : 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.