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Exodus 32:19

As he approached the camp he saw the bull calf idol and the dancing. He got so angry that he threw down the stone tablets and smashed them there at the foot of the mountain.

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In The King James Version

And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.

In Context

18But Moses replied, “These are not the shouts of victory or of defeat. What I'm hearing is people partying!”

20He took the bull calf and burned it, and ground it into powder. Then he mixed this with water and made the Israelites drink it.

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Cross References

Exodus 15:20Miriam the prophet, Aaron's sister, picked up a tambourine, and all the women followed her dancing and playing tambourines.

Exodus 32:11But Moses pleaded with the Lord his God, saying, “Why are you angry with the people you brought out of the land of Egypt with tremendous power and great strength?

Numbers 12:3Moses was a very humble man, more than anyone else on earth.

Deuteronomy 10:2I will write the same words on the tablets that were on the first ones, which you broke. Then put them in the Ark.”

2 Samuel 6:14Wearing a priest's ephod, David danced as hard as he could before the Lord

Lamentations 5:15There's no more happiness for us; our dancing has turned into mourning.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 32:16-21

Moses Breaks the Tablets of the Law. ( b. c. 1491.) 15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. 16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables. 17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. 18 And he said, It is not the voice of… Read the whole commentary →

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