Exodus 32:19

As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base 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: “It is neither the cry of victory nor the cry of defeat; I hear the sound of singing!”

20Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.

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Cross References

Exodus 15:20Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.

Exodus 32:11But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God, saying, “O LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?

Numbers 12:3Now Moses was a very humble man, more so than any man on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 10:2And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you are to place them in the ark.”

2 Samuel 6:14And David, wearing a linen ephod, danced with all his might before the LORD,

Lamentations 5:15Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to 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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