Exodus 32:31
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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In Context
32But now, if you will give them forgiveness--but if not, let my name be taken out of your book.
Cross References
Exodus 20:23Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves.
Exodus 34:28And 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.
Ezra 9:6I 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.
Nehemiah 9:33But 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:
Daniel 9:8O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 32:31-35
The Intercession of Moses. ( b. c. 1491.) 30 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the Lord ; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin. 31 And Moses returned unto the Lord , and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. 32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. 33 And the Lord said unto Moses, Whosoever… Read the whole commentary →