Exodus 32:30

And when the next day was come, Moses spoke to the people: You have sinned a very great sin: I will go up to the Lord, if by any means I may be able to entreat him for your crime.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

29And Moses said: You have consecrated your hands this day to the Lord, every man in his son and in his brother, that a blessing may be given to you.

31And returning to the Lord, he said: I beseech thee: this people hath sinned a heinous sin, and they have made to themselves gods of gold: either forgive them this trespass,

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Cross References

Numbers 16:47When Aaron had done this, and had run to the midst of the multitude which the burning fire was now destroying, he offered the incense:

1 Samuel 2:17Wherefore the sin of the young men was exceeding great before the Lord: because they withdrew men from the sacrifice of the Lord.

1 Samuel 12:19And all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel. And all the people said to Samuel: Pray for thy servants to the Lord thy God, that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for a king.

1 Samuel 12:23And far from me be this sin against the Lord, that I should cease to pray for you, and I will teach you the good and right way.

2 Samuel 16:12Perhaps the Lord may look upon my affliction, and the Lord may render me good for the cursing of this day.

Job 42:7And after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite : My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends, because you have not spoken the thing that is right before my, as my servant Job hath.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 32:22-30

Moses Reproves Aaron; Destruction of the Idolaters. ( b. c. 1491.) 21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them? 22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief. 23 For they said unto me, 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 wot not what is become of him. 24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold,… Read the whole commentary →

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